Petersen v. Utah Department of Corrections

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• providing that a retaliation claim requires the defendant to be on notice the plaintiff was engaging in protected opposition
• reasoning that employee’s supervisors could not know that employee was engaging in protected conduct “unless they knew that her opposition was based (at least in part)” on supervisor’s discriminatory motives
• holding the employee’s complaints must give adequate notice to the employer that the employee is complaining of conduct prohibited by Title VII
• noting that actionable Title VII retaliation claims must be prompted by employee’s opposition to discrimination prohibited by Title VII
• observing that a person “could be unconscionably rude and unfair . . . without violating Title VII”
• stating that the defendant’s agent “could be unconscionably rude and unfair to [the plaintiff] without violating Title VII”

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