Pamela Richardson v. Monitronics International, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that supervisor’s comment, in reference to employee on FMLA leave, that he would “just fire her ass” and “worry about it later” showed a retaliatory animus
• stating that for mixed-motive cases \the employer's burden `is effectively that of proving an affirmative defense'\ (citation omitted)
• finding that “a lengthy history of attendance problems” constitutes “a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for firing” an employee
• noting that “temporal proximity,” when considered with other evidence, can “raise an issue of fact as to whether retaliation” contributed to an employee’s termination
• observing no evidence of retaliation where an employee was fired for his \long history of attendance problems\
• holding that mixed motives causation standard applies

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).