Sandra J. MANICCIA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jerry D. BROWN, Sheriff of Santa Rosa County, Florida, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that a female plaintiff who committed at least four policy violations was not similarly situated to employees who each committed a single policy violation
• holding that gaps of fifteen and twenty-one months between the employee’s and employer’s respective actions were too great to support a causal nexus
• holding that fifteen months and twenty-one months between the protected activity and the adverse actions were too long to demonstrate causation
• holding that the “quantity and the quality of the comparator’s misconduct must be nearly identical”
• concluding that the plaintiff failed to identify a similarly situated employee when her proposed comparators had each committed only a single act of misconduct whereas she had committed at least four policy violations
• holding that a female employee was not similarly situated to three male employees because, inter alia, the male employees were involved in only a single incident of alleged misconduct, while the female employee committed “at least four policy violations”

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