Regina McGuire v. City of Springfield, Illinois

How courts have described this case

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• holding that although a ten-year delay between protected activity and the adverse employment action “was exceedingly long[,] . . . the reason a long wait often implies no causation . . . d[id] not apply” because the employer had no earlier opportunity to retaliate
• “[T]iming may offer a clue to causation (or its absence) when an employee charges retaliation: a short gap may suggest a causal link, while a long one undercuts an inference of causation”
• ten-year gap between protected activity and termination did not necessarily preclude an inference of causation when, under the circumstances of the case, the termination came when a convenient, “early opportunity” presented itself

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).