United States Second Circuit

Because plaintiff adequately exhausted his Title VII race discrimination claim, and because defending oneself against charges of sexual harassment by testifying in a Title VII proceeding qualifies as "protected activity" under 42 U. S. C. section 2000e-3(a), the district court's grant to defendant of judgment on the pleadings is reversed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/27/2003
• Decided 07/11/2003
• Published 07/11/2003

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge., Before STRAUB and POOLER, Circuit Judges, and HURD, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gregory S. Lisi, Rockville Centre, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul L. Herzfeld, (Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, on the brief, and Francis F. Caputo, of counsel), New York, for Defendants-Appellees.