Paul Wimmer v. Suffolk County Police Department and Peter F. Cosgrove, Commissioner of Suffolk County Police Department, Suffolk County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that opposition to employees’ racial discrimination against public cannot form basis of retaliation claim because that discrimination does not violate title VII
• holding that “[t]he term ‘protected activity’ refers to action taken to protest or oppose statutorily prohibited discrimination” (quotation and other citation omitted)
• explaining that plaintiff “need not prove that the conditions against which he protested actually amounted to a violation of Title VII.”
• stating that an employee who “protested” employment conditions with a “good faith, reasonable belief’ that those conditions violated Title VII would be engaged in protected activity
• noting that the plaintiff must have a “good faith, reasonable belief that the underlying actions of the employer violated the law” (emphasis added)
• holding individual “could not have reasonably believed” that he was opposing unlawful acts where “the evidence d[id]not address racial discrimination in an employment practice”

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