Legal Opinion
Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson Cty.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 26, 2009No. 06-1595PublishedCited by 772 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Souter
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 253, as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 2000e et seq. (2000 ed. and Supp. V), forbids retaliation by employers against employees who report workplace race or gender discrimination. The question here is whether this protection extends to an employee who speaks out about discrimination not on her own initiative, but in answering questions during an employer’s internal investigation. We hold that it does.
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In 2002, respondent Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee (Metro), began looking into rumors of sexual harassment by the…
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