Salome Fierros v. Texas Department of Health

KING, Chief Judge:

Plaintiff-Appellant Salome Fierros appeals from the district court’s summary judgment dismissing her Title VII retaliation claim. For the following reasons, we REVERSE the district court’s judgment and REMAND to that court for further proceedings.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

For over twenty-five years, Plaintiff-Appellant Salome Fierros, a Hispanic female, worked as a laboratory technician for the Texas Center for Infectious Disease, a department of the Texas Department of Health (“TDH”). In October 1996, Fier-ros filed an internal complaint with TDH’s Office of Civil…