Legal Opinion
Lakeside-Scott v. Multnomah County
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 12, 2009No. 05-35896PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge FISHER; Concurrence by Judge BERZON.
FISHER, Circuit Judge:
This appeal involves an alleged retaliatory discharge of an employee after she complained about co-workers and one of her supervisors and presents a question that this circuit has not yet answered: Can a final decision maker’s wholly independent, legitimate decision to terminate an employee insulate from liability a lower-level supervisor involved in the process who had a retaliatory motive to have the employee fired? We conclude that, on the record in this case, the answer must be yes, because the termination decision…
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