Patrick J. Fyfe v. City of Fort Wayne, Indiana

How courts have described this case

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• holding that denial of a request for reimbursement for travel expenses did not constitute an adverse employment action
• stating that a lengthy time between the events is insufficient proof of causation in the absence of other causal links (citing Hughes v. Derwinski, 967 F.2d 1168, 1174-75 (7th Cir. 1992) (finding four months insuf- ficient
• refusal to reimburse business expenses incurred to attend a seminar not an adverse employment action
• “[i]n the absence of any other evidence of a causal link, the 18–month interval in this case is insufficient proof of causation”
• refusal to reimburse expenses for unapproved, but work-related, seminar was not a ma- terially adverse action

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