395 F. Supp. 2d 668 - Dage v. Time Warner Cable’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2022
1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 29 U.S.C. § 2611 (§ 101 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 29 U.S.C. § 2612 (§ 102 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 29 U.S.C. § 2615 (§ 105 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 42 U.S.C. § 12102 (§ 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 2601
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prima facie evidentiary burden for demonstrating a causal connection between an employee’s FMLA leave and termination is “minimal,” and courts are expected to “draw reasonable inferences” from any credible evidence put forth by the plaintiff. Nguyen v. City of Cleveland, 229 F.3d 559, 565-66 (6 Cir.2000) (citing EEOC v. Avery Dennison, 104 F.3d 858 , 861 (6 Cir.1997)). Causation may be inferred from indirect or circumstantial evidence, such as temporal proximity between protected leave and adverse action. See, e.g., Skrjanc, 272 F.3d at 314 . The Sixth Circuit has, in some recent cases, suggested that temporal proximity must be coupled with some evidence of retaliatory conduct before any connection may be inferred. See, e.g., Nguyen v. City of Cleveland, 229 F.3d 559, 566-67 (6 Cir.2000); Parries v. Makino, 122 Fed.Appx. 826, 827 (6th Cir.2004). However, the Sixth Circuit has declined to specify precisely how much additional evidence is required. See Nguyen, 229 F.3d at 567 . Moreover, there are other recent employment retaliation cases, including FMLA cases, indicating that temporal proximity alone may support an inference of causal connection. See, e.g., Skrjanc, 272 F.3d at 314 ; Singfield v. Akron Metro. Hous. Auth., 389 F.3d 555 (6 Cir.2004); DiCarlo v. Potter, 358 F.3d 408, 421 (6 Cir.2004); Ford v. General Motors, 305 F.3d 545, 554-55 (6 Cir.2002).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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