Legal Opinion
Tanca v. Nordberg
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 28, 1996No. 95-1628PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Chief Judge.
Appellant James Tanca (“Tanca”) brought this action alleging retaliation under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-3, against his employer, the Massachusetts Department of Employment and Training (“DET”) and Nils Nordberg, Commissioner of the DET. 1 The central issue is whether the changes wrought in the law by section 107 of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, Public Law 102-166 (the “1991 Act”), which explicitly apply only to discrimination claims (and which were meant to partially overrule Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 U.S. 228, 109 S.Ct. 1775, 104…
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- Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. BonjornoSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
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