37 F. Supp. 3d 368 - Keys v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
4 district ·
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
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“In order to sustain a claim for retaliation at the motion-to-dismiss stage, 'a plaintiff must show that (1) he engaged in a statutorily protected activity; (2) his employer took an adverse personnel action against him; and (3) a causal connection exists between the two.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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