Paula A. Kipp, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission, Appellant/cross-Appellee

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• holding that Title VII plaintiff must show that “retaliatory motive played a part in the adverse employment action”
• concluding that a two- month interval between the complaint and termination “dilutes any inference of causation”
• holding that a two-month interval “so dilute[d] any inference of causation” that the employee could not establish causation as a matter of law in her Title VII claim
• holding that an interval of two months between the protected activity and the adverse action “dilute[d] any inference of causation” and that the temporal connection alone “could not justify a finding in [the plaintiff’s] favor on the matter of causal link”
• holding a two month interval between plaintiff’s protected activity and her firing was too long as a matter of law to justify a causal link
• determining that 2 months between plaintiff’s complaint and her termination of employment did not establish causal link

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