Legal Opinion
Velázquez-Pérez v. Developers Diversified Realty Corp.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 23, 2014No. 12-2226PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves several issues, including a legal question we have not previously considered: Under what circumstances, if any, can an employer be held liable for sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it terminates a worker whose job performance has been maligned by a jilted coworker intent on revenge? We answer that the employer faces liability if: the coworker acted, for discriminatory reasons, with the intent to cause the plaintiffs firing; the co-worker’s actions were in fact the proximate cause of the termination; and the…
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