Essie Rollins v. State of Florida Department of Law Enforcement

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• holding that an employer’s refusal to promote an employee who “had earned the reputation as a disruptive complainer who antagonized her supervisors and colleagues and impaired the morale of her unit” did not violate Title VII
• recognizing that Title VII protects individuals from retaliation “regardless of the merit of [their] complaints so long as [they] can show a good, faith, reasonable belief that the challenged practices violate Title VII”
• stating that statutorily protected expression “extends . . . to those . . . who informally voice complaints to their superiors”
• finding that “habitually bypass[ing] the chain of command by 51 bringing . . . complaints of discriminatory employment practices directly” to senior officials was a legitimate nonretaliatory reason for denying the plaintiff a promotion
• noting that Jones is “consistent” with this Court’s precedent
• noting that Jones is \consistent\ with this Court's precedent

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