Shaffer v. AMERICAN MEDICAL ASS'N

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• noting that it “is certainly within a district court’s prerogative” to decline to consider “any facts that were not contained in the parties’ Rule 56.1 statements”
• noting that it “is certainly within a district court’s prerogative” to decline to consider “any facts that were not contained in the parties’ Rule 56.1 statements”
• noting that it “is certainly within a district court’s prerogative” to decline to consider “any facts that were not contained in the parties’ Rule 56.1 statements”
• explaining that the issue before the court was whether a reasonable jury could conclude that the plaintiff’s exercise of protected activity was a motivating factor behind the adverse employment action
• finding summary judgment premature where reasonable jury could find employer chose to terminate plaintiff for exercising his right to take FMLA leave based on evidence that employer changed his mind about which employee to terminate shortly after plaintiff requested leave
• “[T]he burden is on the seeking to invoke the privilege.” (citing United States v. White, 950 F.2d 426, 430 (7th Cir. 1991))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).