California Court of Appeal

REEVES v. SAFEWAY STORES, INC., H024375

An employer may be liable for retaliatory discharge, even though the ultimate decision to discharge is made by a manager with no knowledge that the worker has engaged in protected activities, so long as its retaliatory motive was an actuating, but-for cause of the dismissal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/29/2004
• Published 07/29/2004

Judges

• RUSHING, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Theresa L. Pfeiffer, Los Gatos, for Plaintiff and Appellant William McLeod Reeves.


• For Appellees:
  
• Littler Mendelson, Nancy E. Pritikin, San Francisco, Neda N. Dal Cielo, San Jose, for Defendant and Respondent Safeway Stores, Inc.