Legal Opinion
Henry H. HALE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John O. MARSH, as Secretary of the Army, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 23, 1986No. 85-2942PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to consider a question that has not arisen before at the appellate level: whether an employer who retaliates against another employer’s employee for that employee’s having opposed, charged, etc. unlawful discrimination against himself or somebody else violates the retaliation (sometimes called “participation”) provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-3(a).
Hale, a black employee of OSHA, helped a black woman employed by the Army Corps of Engineers with her complaint of racial discrimination by the Corps. The…
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