MATTER OF MOHAWK FINISHING PRODS., INC. v. State Div. of Human Rights

On this appeal, both parties and the amicus curiae1 have exhaustively briefed and argued the issue of the appropriate standard for invocation of the antiretaliation provision of the Human Rights Law (Executive Law, § 296, subd 1, par [e]).2 Meeting this question head on, I believe we now should hold that the statute makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against employees who oppose employment practices they reasonably believe to be discriminatory, and this though the practices in fact later are found to have been lawful. So deciding, the present case should be remitted to the…