United States Fourth Circuit

In a Title VII retaliation claim, judgment in favor of defendant-employer is vacated where the district court erred in ruling that the plaintiff failed to present sufficient evidence of retaliation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/17/2005
• Decided 09/13/2005
• Published 09/13/2005

Judges

• Before KING and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Susan Lisabeth Starr, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Appellate Services, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.   Francis Joseph Nealon, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Eric S. Dreiband, General Counsel, Lorraine C. Davis, Acting Associate General Counsel, Vincent J. Blackwood, Assistant General Counsel, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Jeffrey W. Larroca, Kirsten E. Keating, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.