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Court OKs suits on retaliation in race, age cases

http://www.rawstory.com/news/moch...on_retaliation_in_r_05272008.html

Excerpt:

Supreme Court sides with employees in lawsuits on retaliation over race, age bias

An unexpected blend of liberal and conservative Supreme Court justices gave workers more leeway Tuesday to sue when they face retaliation after complaining about discrimination in the workplace.

In two employment cases, one involving race and the other, age, the court took an expansive view of workers' rights and avoided the narrow, ideology-based decisions that marked its previous term.

The justices read parts of an 1860s civil rights act and the main anti-age bias law to include the right to sue over reprisals even though neither provision expressly prohibits retaliation.