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Retaliation
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Labor Law Prof Blog
Tenth Circuit Holds that Defense of Title VII Claim Falls under Participation Clause
The Tenth Circuit has issued an opinion in a non-traditional type of retaliation case. In Kelley v. City of Albuquerque, the employee, an attorney, had represented the city as a…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Public Employee Enjoys Rare First Amendment Retaliation Success
From mlive.com, comes this First Amendment retaliation case that reminds me of the old days of public employee free speech rights before the Garcetti decision of the U.S. Supreme Court…
World of Employment
City of Vancouver Settles Race Discrimination Suit for 1.65 Million
The City of Vancouver, Washington announced yesterday that it will pay a former police officer $1.65 million to settle a federal retaliation and racial discrimination lawsuit he filed two years ago over…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Taylor on A Proposal for Congressional Intervention after Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. V. White
Lisa Durham Taylor (Atlanta's John Marshall Law School) has posted on SSRN her forthcoming piece in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor & Employment Law: Adding Subjective Fuel to…
Labor Law Prof Blog
AT&T: Big Talk, Discriminatory Actions
AT&T publicly advertises its commitment to diversity in the workplace and has been ranked among the top 40 "best diversified" companies, but a Dallas County jury did not find this…
California Employment Law Update
Employee Of Syrian National Origin May Proceed With Discrimination And Defamation Claims
By Tony Oncidi
Mamou v. Trendwest Resorts, Inc., 165 Cal. App. 4th 686 (2008) Tamer Mamou was employed as a project director for Trendwest (a company that sells timeshares at various resort locations)…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
Retaliate for Seeking Benefits?
Probably the only really note worthy decision out of the First Circuit with regard to ERISA while I was out of the office is this one here, in Kouvchinov v.…
Labor Law Prof Blog
10th Cir.: Title VII Participation Clause Retaliation Provision Broader Than Opposition Clause
So found the Tenth Circuit this week in Vaughn v. Epworth Villa (10th Cir 08/19/2008).Here is Ross Runkel's description of the case from his Employment Law Memo:Vaughn sued the employer,…
Labor Law Prof Blog
SEALS: Title VII Retaliation
In the final labor/employment panel at SEALS this year, Rebecca White (second, Georgia) moderated a panel on The Impact of Retaliation in the Workplace After Burlington Northern v. White. Henry…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
What’s a Four Million Dollar Jury Verdict Look Like?
Earlier this week, I posted on a $4M verdict in federal court in a retaliation case, Tucker v. Journal Register Co. But did you ever wonder what the verdict form…