Earnest Durant v. District of Columbia

In light of the fractured decision in Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317 (1986), and the conflicting Circuit approaches regarding summary-judgment practice that it has generated, what is a movant’s burden of production to obtain summary judgment pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 56 when the movant does not bear the burden of proof on the merits of a claim?

For purposes of defeating a summary-judgment motion on a retaliation claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-3(a), is a showing of temporal proximity between an employee’s protected conduct (such as the filing of a lawsuit against an employer) and an employer’s adverse employment decision (such as terminating the employee’s job) sufficient to create a genuine issue that any proffered legitimate reasons by the employer for the adverse employment decision are a “pretext” for retaliation?