William J. Sprenger v. Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines

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• concluding there was not enough evidence of pretext, even though the employer acted against the employee “a matter of weeks” after learning about his disability
• noting that reliance on an honest, albeit incorrect, belief is not evidence of pretext
• noting that “a ‘matter of weeks’ between a protected activity and an adverse employment action was sufficient to satisfy the causation element of a prima facie case of retaliation”
• noting that a “matter of weeks” between a protected activity and an adverse employment action was sufficient to satisfy the causation element of a prima facie case of retaliation
• noting courts “hesitate to rely on isolated comments as proof as bias, ... lest the law become a ‘general civility code’ ”
• “Prov[ing] pretext or actual discrimination requires more substantial evidence” than a “prima facie case” because the evidence “is viewed in light of the employer’s justification.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).