Phinney v. Wentworth Douglas Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• holding that motions for sanctions “ordinarily should be classified as nondispositive”
• concluding motion for discovery sanctions was nondispositive because it does not matter what the magistrate “might theoretically have done”
• explaining that once employer articulates legitimate nondiscriminatory reason for adverse employment action, “the plaintiff must show both that the employer’s ‘proffered reason is a sham, and that discriminatory animus sparked [its] actions’”
• describing the nature of proof required to establish a prima facie case as “de minimis”
• “[T]he terms dispositive and nondispositive as used in Rule 72 must be construed in harmony with the classifications limned in section 636(b)(1)”

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