Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Navy Federal Credit Union

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that plaintiff reasonably believed she was opposing unlawful retaliation by disrupting plan that had been set in motion by employer to terminate another employee for her 15 discrimination complaints
• holding that employee's objection to heightened scrutiny of another employee was protected activity
• holding that an employer’s scheme to give favorable performance evaluations established a prima facie case of unlawful retaliation where the employer intended the evaluations to insulate it from civil liability
• explaining that an opposition activity, such as making an internal complaint, is protected where an employee opposes either “employment actions actually unlawful under Title VII” or “employment actions [she] reasonably believes to be unlawful”
• stating that a “complaint[] . . . about suspected violations” could constitute a protected oppositional activity
• stating that Title VII “protects activity in opposition not only to employment actions actually unlawful under Title VII but also employment actions an employee reasonably believes to be unlawful”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).