Succession of Tompkins

How courts have described this case

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• finding that defendant terminated plaintiff for excessive absences, and plaintiff could not establish that reason is pretext for retaliation
• finding that employee was not a qualified individual under the ADA because frequent absences rendered the employee unable to perform essential job functions
• holding an employee’s excessive absences were a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for her termination
• finding that a plaintiff failed to establish a prima facie case of discrimination because she took 132 hours of leave in her first 6 months of work, causing her to miss deadlines and “fail{] to satisfy the core requirements of her position”
• If “there is an alternative explanation for the timing of plaintiff’s termination that is wholly consistent with defendant’s reason for terminating plaintiff,” then pretext cannot be established by temporal proximity.
• “Because there is an intervening event that explains the close proximity of plaintiff's diagnosis and her termination, this temporal proximity alone does not establish that defendant's legitimate reason for terminating plaintiff is pretext for discrimination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).