Opposition or participation

AND · 29usc623:protected-activity

Exact element source

It shall be unlawful for an employer to discriminate against any of his employees or applicants for employment, for an employment agency to discriminate against any individual, or for a labor organization to discriminate against any member thereof or applicant for membership, because such individual, member or applicant for membership has opposed any practice made unlawful by this section, or because such individual, member or applicant for membership has made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or litigation under this chapter.
Source: docroot/ir/usc/title29.jsonl#title29_sec623; Unicode character offsets [1750:2342] (end exclusive); SHA-256 d7414b39849853d6a6068539da731f835b09d9f238c028f95f2d0dd04fb6f667.

All variants

Recorded DB variant labels, including zero-count variants
VariantDescriptionMerits instance blocksDistinct casesExample cases (up to 3 per group)
oppositionOpposing an ADEA-unlawful practice; judicial good-faith/reasonableness limits apply.0
Satisfied 0; not satisfied 0; excluded context 0
0No annotation uses in this snapshot
participationCharge, testimony, assistance or participation in ADEA investigation, proceeding or litigation.0
Satisfied 0; not satisfied 0; excluded context 0
0No annotation uses in this snapshot
participation/eeoc-age-discrimination-charge1
Satisfied 1; not satisfied 0; excluded context 0
1/f-supp-3d/380/0783-01 — United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois · 2019 — satisfied

How courts decided this element

Annotation blocks, including explicitly excluded context
CaseElementHolding and scopeVariantExact source quotations
/f-supp-3d/380/0783-01 — United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois · 2019Opposition or participationsatisfied
Counted merits instance
applied / merits

basis: pleaded

The pleaded retaliation allegation survived the motion to dismiss posture.
participation/eeoc-age-discrimination-charge
Spratt alleges that Bellwood retaliated against her for filing an EEOC complaint
Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f_supp_3d_380.jsonl#/f-supp-3d/380/0783-01; Unicode character offsets [6455:6535] (end exclusive); SHA-256 ae65194fc22e806d299e7b218c92596a3be1c881f1451e66c47790b7cf1aad24.

Evidence kind: fact; polarity: supports; absent flag: 0; quoted-rule flag: 0 (1 = tagged; 0 = not tagged)

Spratt's Amended Complaint sufficiently alleges each element of a retaliation claim under the ADEA.
Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f_supp_3d_380.jsonl#/f-supp-3d/380/0783-01; Unicode character offsets [7368:7467] (end exclusive); SHA-256 ae65194fc22e806d299e7b218c92596a3be1c881f1451e66c47790b7cf1aad24.

Evidence kind: held; polarity: not recorded; absent flag: 0; quoted-rule flag: 0 (1 = tagged; 0 = not tagged)

Court interpretations