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Supreme Court will decide 42 USC Section 1981 retaliation case
September 25, 2007 by Ross Runkel at LawMemo
CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries (certiorari granted 09/25/2007)
Details: http://www.lawmemo.com/supreme/CBOCS/
Humphries sued under 42 USC Section 1981 claiming that his employer discharged him in retaliation for complaining to managers about (a) disciplinary actions taken against him allegedly because of his race, and (b) the discharge of another employee allegedly because of that employee's race.
The 7th Circuit held (2-1) that 42 USC Section 1981 provides a cause of action for retaliation.
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari to review the 7th Circuit's judgment.
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