Legal Opinion
Linkletter v. Western & Southern Financial Group, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 23, 2017No. 16-3265PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
In this Fair Housing Act case that was dismissed for failure to state a valid claim, the plaintiff, Gayle Linkletter, signed an online petition supporting a Cincinnati women’s shelter, the Anna Louise Inn, after she had accepted a position with the defendant, Western & Southern. Western & Southern rescinded its employment agreement with Linkletter because she signed the petition while the company was engaged in a lengthy real estate dispute with the women’s shelter over its location in the neighborhood. Residents of the shelter had previously sued Western &…
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