Sharma v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the D.C. Circuit has “often . . . evaluated causation based on the totality of a plaintiff’s allegations”
• “It is well-settled that on issues of District of Columbia law this Court defers to the decisions of the local D.C. courts.”
• “Plaintiff went beyond the management chain . . . to complain by filing two formal complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice.”
• “[A] plaintiff is terminated from employment when she receives ‘final, unequivocal, and definite’ notice of her termination, even if the effective date occurs later.” (quoting Del. State Coll. v. Ricks, 449 U.S. 250, 259 (1980)
• plaintiff went outside the institution to report fraud

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).