Legal Opinion
Porter v. SHINESKI
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided August 20, 2009No. Civil Action 08-3612PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND REASONS ON MOTION
JOSEPH C. WILKINSON, JR., United States Magistrate Judge.
Plaintiff, Morsie Porter, filed this pro se action alleging that his former employer, Erik K. Shineski, Secretary of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (“the Secretary”), 1 violated Title VII by retaliating against him because he had previously filed several Equal Employment Opportunity (“E.E.O.”) complaints. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16. Porter also brings claims arising out of the same events under 42 U.S.C. § 1981, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 42 U.S.C. § 1985, the Louisiana Constitution and Louisiana tort law.
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