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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Retaliation Claims Up and Robust, Discrimination/Harassment Claims Struggling

In the June 2011 issue of the ABA Journal, David L. Huston Jr. observes a trend of the U.S. Supreme Court being more favorably inclined to employment retaliation claims, than underlying discrimination claims.  Of all discrimination-related charges filed in 2010, retaliation charges were up to 36.3 percent, from 27.1 percent in 2000.  Some recent retaliation highlights: