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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Carr grants a railway’s motion for summary judgment in a retaliation claim submitted by employees who were fired for clocking out early due to an automatic two-minute time delay in the timeclock system. The supervisor had explicitly told the employees not to clock out before a minimum of six hours could be recorded on their time log, so he fired the employees for insubordination. The employees claim that they engaged in a protected activity by refusing to modify their hours to adjust for the time clock discrepancy and that they had in fact worked a full six hours. The judge finds that the employees did not properly identify a federal law in connection with their claim, and thus did not provide sufficient legal reasoning identifying their actions as a protected activity.