Turner v. Gonzales

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• holding that an inference of pretext was permitted where a decisionmaker generated a negative, unscheduled performance review two months after a favorable, regularly scheduled review and five days after receiving notice of the employee’s protected conduct
• holding negative employee review not adverse until it is used to deny a job opportunity
• explaining that a “claim may survive a motion for summary judgment by creating an inference of unlawful discrimination through the familiar McDonnell Douglas three-step burden-shifting analysis”
• finding that timing supported inference of causation where “interim” performance review occurred five days after complaint about discriminatory treatment and less than two months after regular annual review in which plaintiff had received a “Superior” rating
• noting that a plaintiff may establish her prima facie case by showing “she was treated differently from similarly situated” individuals or by providing “some other evidence that would give rise to an inference of unlawful discrimination” (citations omitted)
• affirming the district court’s grant of summary judgment where the plaintiff failed to show that she would have gotten a promotion absent a negative performance review

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