Smith v. Allen Health Systems

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “two events [being] extremely close in time ... is sufficient, but barely so, to establish causation, completing [the plaintiffl’s prima facie case”
• holding that a two-week interval was “barely” sufficient to establish causation in a claim under the FMLA
• holding that thirteen days between exercising rights and the adverse employment action was “sufficient, but barely so, to establish causation”
• holding that the plaintiff failed to show pretext through evidence of inconsistent reasons for the decision when the employer “did not back off from the original explanation”
• explaining that pointing out additional aspects of the same behavior is not probative of pretext
• finding that a temporal gap of two weeks was sufficient to show prima facie causation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).