DEA Defeats White Female Worker’s Appeal in Bias, Reprisal Suit

A White female Drug Enforcement Agency supervisor lacked triable retaliation and retaliatory harassment claims, in part because her “attempt to spotlight her supervisor’s misconduct illuminated only her own,” the Fourth Circuit ruled Thursday.

The job actions Lisa Barnhill challenged as retaliatory included being temporarily reassigned from the DEA’s Little Rock, Ark., district office to its New Orleans Field Division office, the court said. According to the agency, that move was prompted by its decision to conduct a management review of the pharmaceutical controlled substances diversion program group Barnhill led following complaints that she created a hostile workplace for her subordinates ...