Legal Opinion

Anderson v. Brennan

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided December 14, 2018No. 17-2162PPublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

In the end in these cross-appeals after a bench trial, we leave the parties just where they were, as we see no error by the trial court.

Plaintiff Diping Anderson was a Postal Police Officer (PPO) employed by the U.S. Postal Service and terminated on September 9, 2013. Her Title VII lawsuit alleged that her termination as a PPO was unlawfully discriminatory on the basis of race and national origin, and independently was in retaliation for her having filed earlier Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) complaints.

After a seven-day bench trial, the district court concluded that…

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