Schoonover v. Klamath County

How later courts describe this case

• holding that infer ence cannot be based on timing alone but must take into account other evidence
• declaring that a non-movant may not “rest upon mere allegations, general denials, or ... vague statements”
• declaring that non-movant may not “rest upon mere allegations, general denials, or ... vague statements”
• declaring that nonmovant may not “rest upon mere allegations, general denials, or vague statements”
• timing of events alone, even if sufficient to meet plaintiffs prima facie burden of showing retaliation, could not defeat defendant’s summary judgment motion
• approving an award of attorneys fees under the district court’s power to award Rule 11 sanctions; the motion for attorney’s fees was filed at the conclusion of a bench trial
• where the district court’s determination with respect to federal substantive law was intrinsic to its jurisdictional decision
• plaintiff “has not shown that the timing of her filing of her [administrative] complaint ... and the request for her termination ... was anything but a coincidence”