Mulrain v. Donovan

How courts have described this case

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• holding “the mere fact of cancelling a Vacancy Announcement does not give rise to an inference of discrimination; it is [t]he motivation behind the vacancy cancellation [that] determines whether the [employer’s] action violates Title VII”
• “To establish pretext, the employee must offer evidence showing that the employer’s explanation is ‘false, that it is a lie, or that the employer’s real motivation was [retaliation].’” (quoting Aka v. Wash. Hosp. Ctr., 156 F.3d 1284, 1289 n.3 (D.C. Cir. 1998))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).