Former FBI Agent Gets Discrimination Claim Revived on Appeal

A former agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation convinced a federal appeals court that a supervisor might have retaliated against her after she filed a formal complaint with the bureau’s equal employment office.

The US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said Laura J. Ramos, a Hispanic woman, had shown there was a factual dispute over whether the FBI took back a transfer offer after learning she had launched a formal discrimination complaint. The lower court was wrong to grant summary judgment to the FBI on that claim, Judge Robert L. Wilkins wrote in an opinion issued July ...