Legal Opinion
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Rite Way Service, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 8, 2016No. 15-60380PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREGG COSTA, Circuit Judge:
It has long been the law in this and other circuits that a plaintiff contending that she was retaliated against for proactively 'reporting employment discrimination need hot show that the discrimination rose to the level of a. Title VII violation, but must at least show a reasonable belief that it did. See generally Payne v. McLemore’s Wholesale & Retail Stores, 654 F.2d 1130, 1140 (5th Cir. Unit A Sept. 1981). In this.case,-we address whether that same “reasonable belief’ standard applies to a retaliation claim brought by a third party witness who was'fired soon…
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