Steven Lang v. Illinois Department of Children and Family Services

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• concluding that the plaintiff’s receipt of unjustified disciplinary actions in the “same month” he engaged in protected activity sufficient to raise an inference of retaliation
• holding that an \extremely short lapse of time\ is a causal link combined with other circumstantial evidence
• holding that, viewed in the long term, employee’s record of positive performance reviews followed by over a year of reprimands culminating in his termination was evidence of retaliation
• holding that, viewed in the long term, employee’s record of positive performance reviews followed by over a year of repri- mands culminating in his termination was evidence of retaliation
• holding that the district court focused on too short a time span
• holding that union grievances can amount to statutorily protected activity

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