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“Courts may not sit as super personnel departments, assessing the merits – or even the rationality – of employers’ nondiscriminatory business decisions.”
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Brooks v. SIMOS Insourcing Solutions LLC
emporal proximity of an employee's protected activity to an employer's adverse action' is circumstantial evidence that allows retaliation claim to get past summary judgment.
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Chiaretto v. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
courts may not sit as super personnel departments, assessing the merits-or even the rationality-of employers nondiscriminatory business decisions.
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Sullivan v. Liberty Mutual Insurance
courts may not sit as super personnel departments, assessing the merits - or even the rationality - of employers' nondiscriminatory business decisions
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Ferguson v. United States
hoehstein's good faith belief that new york law required him to prefer safelon's employees over the federal government is not a defense to liability under section 6672.
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Francis v. Runyon
courts may not sit as super personnel departments, assessing the merits - or even the rationality - of employers' nondiscriminatory business decisions.
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Alexander Puopolo v. Massachusetts Port Authority.
See id. (where plaintiff remains in company's employ for months after protected activity and is fired after disciplinary infraction, "the sequence of events . . . suggests the absence of a causal connection between the statutorily protected conduct and the adverse employment action, not the converse").
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Sanchez Ramos v. Puerto Rico Police Department
See Mesnick v. General Elec., Co., 950 F.2d 816, 827 (1st Cir.1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2965 , 119 L.Ed.2d 586 (1992); see also Soileau v. Guilford of Maine, 105 F.3d 12, 16 (1st Cir.1997); Oliveras Sifre v. Department of Health, 38 F.Supp.2d 91, 102 (D.Puerto Rico 1999). 5 .
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Byron Ashley Parker v. Frederick J. Head
See United States v. Sturman, 951 F.2d 1466, 1478 (6th Cir.1991) cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2964 , 119 L.Ed.2d 586 (1992); United States v. Madrid, 842 F.2d 1090, 1093 (9th Cir.) cert. denied, 488 U.S. 912 , 109 S.Ct. 269 , 102 L.Ed.2d 257 (1988).
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Abreu-Guzman v. Ford
See Mesnick v. General Electric Co., 950 F.2d 816, 822 (1st Cir.1991), ce rt. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2965 , 119 L.Ed.2d 586 (1992) (nonmovant must “present definite, competent evidence to rebut the motion.”).
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Napier v. Windham
See Mesnick v. General Electric Co., 950 F.2d 816, 822 (1st Cir. 1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 (1992); Polyplastics, Inc. v. Transconex, Inc., 827 F.2d 859, 860 (1st Cir. 1987).
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Napier v. Town of Windham
See Mesnick v. General Electric Co., 950 F.2d 816, 822 (1st Cir.1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2965 , 119 L.Ed.2d 586 (1992); Polyplastics, Inc. v. Transconex, Inc., 827 F.2d 859, 860 (1st Cir.1987).
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32 Collier bankr.cas.2d 38, Bankr. L. Rep. P 77,567 in Re Salvatore J. Mazzeo, Debtor. Salvatore J. Mazzeo v. United States of America and New York State, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Creditor, Marianne De Rosa, Trustee
Under this section, the responsible individuals include all persons who are "connected closely enough with the business to prevent the [tax] default from occurring," Fiataruolo v. United States, 8 F.3d 930, 939 (2d Cir.1993) (internal quotation marks omitted); see Hochstein v. United States, 900 F.2d 543, 546 (2d Cir.1990) (all who "have the authority to direct the payment of corporate funds"), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2967 , 119 L.Ed.2d 587 (1992); and "[w]illfully" means simply that the nonpayment of the withheld funds to the government was "voluntary, conscious and intentional…
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Mazzeo v. United States
Under this section, the responsible individuals include all persons who are “connected closely enough with the business to prevent the [tax] default from occurring,” Fiataruolo v. United States, 8 F.3d 930, 939 (2d Cir.1993) (internal quotation marks omitted); see Hochstein v. United States, 900 F.2d 543, 546 (2d Cir.1990) (all who “have the authority to direct the payment of corporate funds”), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2967 , 119 L.Ed.2d 587 (1992); and “[w]illfully” means simply that the nonpayment of the withheld funds to the government was “voluntary, conscious a…
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Younie v. Gonya (In Re Younie)
See In re Levy, 951 F.2d 196, 197 (9th Cir.1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2965 , 119 L.Ed.2d 586 (1992); United States for Use and Benefit of Reed v. Callahan, 884 F.2d 1180, 1185 (9th Cir.1989) (addressing a question involving the district court’s application of law to a fee request), cert. denied sub nom.
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In Re Cohen
See In re Levy, 951 F.2d 196 (9th Cir.1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2965 , 119 L.Ed.2d 586 (1992); see also In re Bugna, 33 F.3d 1054, 1058-59 (9th Cir.1994).
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In Re: Edward Cohen v.
(2×)
See In re Levy, 951 F.2d 196 (9th Cir. 1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2965 (1992); see also In re 22 Bugna, 33 F.3d 1054, 1058-59 (9th Cir. 1994).
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Woods-Leber v. Hyatt Hotels of Puerto Rico, Inc.
See Mesnick v. General Electric Co., 950 F.2d 816, 822 (1st Cir.1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2965 , 119 L.Ed.2d 586 (1992) (The nonmovant must “present definite, competent evidence to rebut the motion.”); Medina-Muñoz v. R.J.
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Wood v. MCC Superintendant
See Cochrane v. Quattrocchi, 949 F.2d 11, 14 (1st Cir.1991) ("[A] prison visitor confronted with the choice between submitting to a strip search or foregoing [sic] a visit cannot provide a 'legally cognizable consent,' ” because "it is the very choice to which [the visitor] [is] put that is constitutionally intolerable.”) (quoting Blackburn v. Snow, 771 F.2d 556, 568, 569 (1st Cir.1985)), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2965 , 119 L.Ed.2d 586 (1992). 4 .
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Brown v. Town of Weymouth
See Mesnick v. General Electric Co., 950 F.2d 816, 822 (1st Cir.1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 (1992).
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Brown v. Town of Weymouth
See ___ Mesnick v. General Electric Co., 950 F.2d 816, 822 (1st Cir. _______ ____________________ 1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 (1992).
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Eldred v. Consolidated Freightways Corp. of Delaware
See Mesnick v. General Electric Company, 950 F.2d 816, 828 (1st Cir.1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2965 , 119 L.Ed.2d 586 (1992) (nine months between EEOC complaint and discharge and eighteen months between informal complaint and discharge" too long).
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Rizzuto v. United States
See Hochstein v. United States, 900 F.2d 543, 546 (2d Cir.1990), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2967 , 119 L.Ed.2d 587 (1992); see also Thomsen v. United States, 887 F.2d 12, 14 (1st Cir.1989). 4.
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Riverside Acquisition Group LLC v. Vertis Holdings, Inc. (In re Vertis Holdings, Inc.)
Wilson v. Mr. Tee's, 855 F.Supp. at 681 (quoting Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 247-48 , 106 S.Ct. 2505 , 91 L.Ed.2d 202 ; see also Mesnick v. General Electric Co., 950 F.2d 816, 822 (1st Cir.1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2965 , 119 L.Ed.2d 586 (1992)). .
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In Re Carlson
See also Turner v. Avery, 947 F.2d 772, 774 (5th Cir.), reh’g denied, (1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2966 , 119 L.Ed.2d 587 (1992); Banner v. Bagen, 201 B.R. 642, 643 (S.D.N.Y.1996).
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Mullenix v. Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children
See Ruffino v. State Street Bank and Trust Company, 908 F.Supp. 1019, 1044-1045 (D.Mass.1995); see, e.g., Mesnick v. General Electric Company, 950 F.2d 816, 828 (1st Cir.1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2965 , 119 L.Ed.2d 586 (1992) (characterizing nine months as “a long gestation period” and finding no causal connection).
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Ruffino v. State Street Bank and Trust Co.
See 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-3(a); M.G.L. c. 151B, § 4(4); see also Mesnick v. General Electric Co., 950 F.2d 816, 827 (1st Cir.1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 985 , 112 S.Ct. 2965 , 119 L.Ed.2d 586 (1992). 1.
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Johnson, State's Attorney of Kane County
v.
Chi Feng Su
v.
Chi Feng Su
No. 91-1363.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Jun 15, 1992.
504 U.S. 985
C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied.