Patten v. Grant Joint Union High School District

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• explaining that disclosure of internal personnel matters does not amount to “whistleblowing”
• noting 23 judiciary need to police boundaries of California whistleblower statute so as to not “thrust the 24 judiciary into micromanaging employment practices”
• providing framework for analyzing retaliation claims under California Labor Code § 1102.5(b) and setting forth elements of such claims
• setting forth the elements and providing framework for analyzing retaliation claims under Cal. Lab. Code § 1102.5
• noting that a “lateral” transfer of a principal to a different school was an adverse employment action because the school to which she was transferred “d[id] not present the kinds of administrative, challenges an up-andncoming principal wanting to make her mark would relish”
• applying the McDonnell Douglas framework to a retaliation claim brought pursuant to section 1102.5

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