A retired professor whose opposition to a campus remodeling plan might have cost him emeritus status cannot establish he suffered an adverse employment action, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The 2nd Circuit ruling affirmed a decision by a Southern District judge, albeit under a different standard. While the court said the retaliation claim standard "has always been the equivalent to the standard set forth in Burlington Northern ," it also said the standard was of no consequence in this case.
September 19, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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A retired professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology whose vocal opposition to a campus remodeling plan might have cost him emeritus status cannot establish that he suffered an adverse employment action, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
The ruling in Zelnik v. Fashion Institute of Technology, 05-CV-5131, by a unanimous panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, affirmed a decision by Southern District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, albeit under a different standard.
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