Dana Blackie v. State of Maine

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the contractual provision, though “not a model of syntax,” was nonetheless unambiguous because when “[r]ead as a whole, the [provision] can sustain only one reasonable interpretation”
• finding that depriving an employee of a privilege of employment that he has reason to anticipate constitutes an adverse employment action
• explaining that an employee, “by engaging in a protected activity [under the FLSA], ... does not acquire immunity” from the same discipline to which his co-workers are subject
• noting that employment discrimination cases premised on disparate treatment share the materially adverse employment action requirement
• stating that “[i]t is hornbook law,” that contract interpretation should not “harp[ ] on isolated provisions, heedless of context.”
• recognizing validity of employer’s decision to modify employees’ contractual pay premium in response to determination that employees were not exempt from overtime provisions of Fair Labor Standards Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).