Primes v. Reno

How courts have described this case

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• vague suggestions of racism as one possible explanation of what plaintiff perceived as a poor evaluation was insufficient to constitute “opposition” under Title VII
• vague suggestions of racism as one possible explanation of what plaintiff perceived as a poor evaluation was insufficient to constitute \opposition\ under Title VII and could not form basis for retaliation claim
• where the defendants asked the plaintiff to “identify and describe each and every act” of race discrimination and reprisal, the “[plaintiffs supplemental responses effectively limit[ed] his claims to his 1994 performance appraisal”
• vague suggestions of racism as one possible explanation of what plaintiff perceived as a poor evaluation was insufficient to constitute “opposition” under Title VII and could not form basis for retaliation claim
• “[P]laintiff here offered vague suggestions of racism as one possible explanation of what he perceived as a poor evaluation, but this is not sufficient to constitute ‘opposition’ under Title VII and cannot form the basis for a retaliation claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).