Lindsay v. Bowers

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that the filing of knowingly false criminal charges against a plaintiff, because of their impact on future potential employment, can constitute an adverse employment action for the purposes of a retaliation claim
• holding that an employer’s malicious filing of criminal charges constituted an adverse employment action
• holding that “[a]bsent an intervening 6 Henderson did not cite any authority that directly supports this proposition. See Henderson, 260 F.3d at 1215. Rather, the Henderson court cited to 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(1
• stating that criminal prosecution of plaintiff at his former employer’s behest would, like a negative reference letter, have an “obvious impact”
• finding actionable retaliation where employer filed false criminal charges against former employee who complained about discrimination
• construing Title VII’s anti-retaliation provision to reach beyond ultimate employment decisions and protect an employee from a malicious prosecution action brought by former employer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).