United States First Circuit

In a whistleblower action, alleging retaliatory termination, the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of employer-defendant is affirmed where: 1) under Maine law, proof of retaliatory animus alone does not suffice to demonstrate the causal connection required to make out a claim for whistleblower protection; and 2) here, there is nothing from which a reasonable factfinder could infer that plaintiff's firing would not have occurred but for her whistleblowing activity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/10/2015
• Published 06/10/2015

Judges

• Selya

Court

• United States First Circuit

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