Assignment: Choose one of the cases from our textbook, and answer the foilsman ountions about it: 1 What are the facts of the case in your own mirds? I What did the court decide in your own words? 3 What was the basis for the court's decision? (i.e. What was the court's roosoning? Why did the court decide the case as it deeded it?) Why is this caw important? S. How might this case affect businesses?
CASE 33.1 U.S. SUPREME COURT Employer Retaliation
Thompson v. North American Stainless, LP 131 S.Ct. 863, 178 L.Ed.2d 694, Web 2011 U.S. Lexis 913 (2011) Supreme Court of the United States
We think it obvious that a reasonable worker might be dissuaded from engaging in protected activity if she knew that her fiancé would be fired." —Scalia, Justice Facts Miriam Regalado and Eric Thompson, who were engaged to be married, both worked at North
American Stainless, LP (NAS). Regalado filed charge with the Equal Employment Opportunit Commission (EEOC), by NAS, in violation of Title VII. Three weeks later, -4616141091141hempson. Thompson filed a charge with the EEOC, claiming that NAS fired him to retali-ate against Regalado for filing her charge against NAS. After conciliation efforts proved unsuccessful