Sharpe v. Utica Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the act of filing a complaint with the DHR “undisputably constitute[d] protected activity”
• noting that formal DHR complaints “undisputably constitute protected activity”
• finding six months between protected activity and termination sufficient for prima facie retaliation claim
• “Internal or informal complaints of discrimination on a basis prohibited by Title VII are protected activity.”
• mere speculation that defendant’s denial of a work opportunity to plaintiff was not sufficient to demonstrate inference of pretext because plaintiff cannot use his own opinion to establish pretext
• plaintiff’s claim that HR’s investigation into her report about another employee “was flawed” was “insufficient to establish pretext” because “[e]ven if the investigation as flawed, . . . a faulty investigation is not in and of itself evidence of pretext”

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