Black Ex-DOJ Program Specialist Advances Some Retaliation Claims

A Black former program operations specialist plausibly alleged Justice Department supervisors retaliated after she refused to rescind a race bias complaint, but she failed to exhaust some claims against the agency, a federal judge said.

The worker sufficiently linked her disproportionate workload, leave denial, and placement on a performance improvement plan to her rejecting a supervisor’s request to pull back the discrimination complaint, but she waited too long to internally raise her other retaliation allegations, the US District Court for the District of Columbia said Monday.

Plaintiff Anna Anderson started working for DOJ in 2008 and took on her Office ...