Asbury University v. Powell

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

JUSTICE NOBLE

A Jessamine Circuit Court jury found that Asbury University’s discharge of former women’s basketball coach Deborah Powell was unlawful retaliation for her engaging in activity protected under the Kentucky -Civil Rights Act. The Court of Appeals affirmed. In petitioning this Court for discretionary review, Asbury raised numerous claims of error, and we accepted review-primarily to decide whether retaliation claims brought under KRS 344.280(1) must be predicated upon an underlying violation .of- the KCRA and to *250clarify the causation standard-required for such…