#temporal nexus

That’s It! You’re Fired! And no, this isn’t retaliation. Is it?

by Jay Marshall Wolman

The law and business are never as neat and clean as you might hope.  One of the toughest problems is when two things are happening around the same time and they start to implicate each other.

In law, we have the maxim “post hoc ergo propter hoc” (after this, therefore because of this) as a known logical fallacy; correlation does not imply causation.  The Fifth Circuit…