Legal Opinion
Booker v. Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 15, 2010No. 09-1082PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Althea Booker filed suit against her employer, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (the Lemuel Shat-tuck Hospital), the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, and certain individual defendants. A jury returned a verdict in favor of defendants on Booker’s claims of retaliation under federal and state law, see 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-3(a); Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151B, § 4(4), and tortious interference with contractual employment relations. The court then denied Booker’s post-trial motions.
On appeal, Booker first contends that the court’s jury instruction…
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