Perwin v. New Jersey

How courts have described this case

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

• allowing retaliation claim where the plaintiff alleged that his union retaliated against him by refusing to prosecute his grievance because the plaintiff had filed an administrative charge of racial discrimination against his employer
• supporting its holding that the first factor weighed in favor of the unnamed defendant by indicating that the plaintiff had written to the unnamed defendant to make complaints about the named defendant’s behavior
• noting the relevance of \whether the unnamed party has in some way represented to the complainant that its relationship with the complainant is to be through the named party\ (quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “We think a plaintiff establishes retaliation by showing that the union acquiesces in a company policy that abridges the statutory rights of the plaintiff.”
• “simply because [plaintiff] filed his original charge against [the employer] and not against the union does not breach the causal connection”
• refusal to process grievance unless member withdrew discrimination claim satisfies this element

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).