Meyer Kama v. Alejandro Mayorkas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• setting forth elements of and burden-shifting framework for a Title VII retaliation claim and explaining how a plaintiff can establish pretext
• noting cases where temporal proximity was sufficient to show pretext involved a period of “only a few days” between the protected 24 activity and adverse action, while usually being accompanied by other evidence of pretext
• investigation may defeat any causal inference that might otherwise follow 26 from the temporal proximity between a plaintiff's protected activity and the termination of 27 his employment
• a “five-month 11 gap” between plaintiff’s employment complaint and alleged 12 retaliatory action by employer “without more, places it at only 13 the outer bounds of relevance”
• “Temporal proximity can support . . . a 16 prima facie case of retaliation[.]”
• recounting the summary judgment standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-14· cited 38,518×
• Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-12· cited 12,455×
• Clark County School District v. Breeden
  Supreme Court· 2001-04-23· cited 3,456×
• Reloynne K. Villiarimo Joseph Harvest v. Aloha Island Air, Inc., Dba Island Air Rosie Nenezich Richard Hee
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-02-28· cited 1,272×
• William J. Ray v. William J. Henderson, Postmaster General
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-07-07· cited 707×
• Ronald Y. Chuang and Linda Chuang v. University of California Davis, Board of Trustees and Fitz-Roy Curry
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-08-30· cited 665×
• George McGinest v. Gte Service Corp. Mike Biggs
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-03-11· cited 529×
• Coszalter v. City of Salem
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-02-18· cited 401×
• Cohen v. Fred Meyer, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1982-09-08· cited 287×
• Dawson v. Entek International
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-01-10· cited 238×
• Hashimoto v. Dalton
  Ninth Circuit· 1997-07-03· cited 201×
• Michael Curley v. City of North Las Vegas
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-12-02· cited 129×
• Joan Opara v. Janet Yellen
  Ninth Circuit· 2023-01-17· cited 72×
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Boeing Co.
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-08-18· cited 67×
• Kalkines v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1973-02-16· cited 59×
• Field v. Napolitano
  First Circuit· 2011-11-10· cited 31×