People v. Yeoman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiff’s termination constitutes a materially adverse action
• holding that a teacher’s speech was unprotected at the 12(b)(6) stage even though he also self-identified as a concerned parent when he spoke because “the substance and context of his speech in the totality” showed that he spoke as a school employee
• finding that Plaintiff stated a religious discrimination claim where Plaintiff alleged “[Plaintiff] is a Christian man” and his belief was that “[a]s a [C]hristian . . . the love that Jesus can provide will help the play”
• holding a plaintiff did not succeed in alleging other individuals were similarly situated to him when the plaintiff “alleged no facts that would allow [the court] to conclude [other employees] shared a supervisor, evaluation and performance standards, or comparable behavior”
• explaining we “routinely have declined to consider arguments that are not raised . . . in an appellant’s opening brief” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• discussing how elements of prima facie case in discrimination cases vary depending on context but that this is the general formulation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).