https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/10/labor-employment-roundup-18/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 21 Oct 2013 04:30:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/10/labor-employment-roundup-18/comment-page-1/#comment-241922 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 04:30:04 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=41774#comment-241922 […] “Did the law firm [Ropes & Gray] retaliate against John Ray III by providing information about his Equal Employment Opportunity Commission race-discrimination complaint to the Above the Law blog?” That is among the questions a federal court in Boston will consider in a trial beginning next month. Specifically, the firm sent a copy of the EEOC’s determination letter in Ray’s case to the popular blog. Since no law bars “retaliation” by employees against employers, we might arrive at a situation in which an employee is free to try his case in the press, while an employer’s hands are tied against responding in kind. [ABA Journal; earlier] […]

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