Legal Opinion
Burns v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 11, 2016No. 15-1982PPublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This case arises from plaintiff Kathleen Burns’s claims of sex discrimination and sex harassment. Burns worked for over ten years as a Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”) employee in the Boston Field Office of the Federal Air Marshals Service (“FAMS”), where her primary role was scheduling international flights for the Federal Air Marshals (“FAMs”). She was considered an “excellent employee,” and the scheduling system she in part designed was recognized as a “best practice” for other field offices to follow.
In May 2012, David Johnson assumed the role of…
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