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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 58 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Felicia Strothers v. City of Laurel, Maryland.

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1 Felicia Strothers v. City of Laurel, Maryland Anchor
ca4 · 2018
green “establishing a 'causal relationship' at the prima facie stage is not an onerous burden.” 22
2 Felicia Strothers v. City of Laurel, Maryland
ca4 · 2018
green “an employee may establish prima facie causation simply by showing that (1) the employer either understood or should have understood the employee to be engaged in protected activity and (2) the employer took adverse action against the employee soon after becoming aware of such ac…” 22
3 Chazz Roberts v. Glenn Industrial Group, Inc.
ca4 · 2021
green “a plaintiff may establish the existence of facts that 'suggest that the adverse action occurred because of the protected activity.” 14

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