Steele v. Hinkle

How courts have described this case

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• “Other courts within 3 this Circuit have found that the temporal proximity of seven months, standing alone, is insufficient 4 to support an inference of retaliatory motive.”
• “Other 26 courts within this Circuit have found that the temporal proximity of seven months, standing alone, 27 is insufficient to support an inference of retaliatory motive.” (collecting cases)
• “[T]o support an 23 inference of retaliatory motive based on timing alone, the adverse action must have 24 occurred ‘fairly soon after the employee's protected expression.’ Causation will only be 25 inferred from timing alone if the proximity is ‘very close.’”

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