Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners v. United States Department of Labor and Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labor

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• adapting McDonnell Douglas prima facie standard to retaliatory discharge claim under the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. S 1367(a)
• \[O]ur sister courts of appeals have consistently construed [other] statutes to lend broad protective coverage to internal complainants.\
• “Section 507(a)’s protection would be largely hollow if it were restricted to the point of filing a formal complaint with the appropriate external law enforcement agency.”
• “employees must be free from threats to their job security in retaliation for their good faith assertions of corporate violations of the statute.”
• “employees must be free from threats to 28 their job security in retaliation for their good faith assertions of corporate violations of the statute.”
• \Section 507(a)'s protection would be largely hollow if it were restricted to the point of filing a formal complaint with the appropriate external law enforcement agency.\

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