P.D., the Father v. Department of Children & Families

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that act that was arguably oppositional was protected based on other factors in balance
• concluding that disclosure of innocently acquired document only to attorney was not disruptive
• holding “a reasonable factfinder could conclude” that firing employee for merely “giving innocently acquired documents to his attorney” was “an extreme overreaction” and therefore pretextual
• reversing grant of summary judgment to employer where employee removed documents because removal was participation activity
• “Protected activity includes ‘oppos[ing] any practice made unlawful’ by the ADEA, § 623(d).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).