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VELÁZQUEZ-PÉREZ v. DEVELOPERS DIVERSIFIED REALTY

No. 12-2226.

753 F.3d 265 (2014)

Antonio VELÁZQUEZ-PÉREZ, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. DEVELOPERS DIVERSIFIED REALTY CORP.; DDR PR Ventures II LLC, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

May 23, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anibal Escanellas-Rivera , with whom Escanellas & Juan, P.S.C. was on brief, for appellant.

Carl Schuster , with whom Migdalí Ramos Rivera and Schuster Aguiló LLP, were on brief, for appellees.

Susan R. Oxford , Attorney, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with whom P. David Lopez , General Counsel, Carolyn L. Wheeler , Acting Associate General Counsel, and Lorraine C. Davis , Assistant General Counsel, were on brief, for amicus curiae Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Before TORRUELLA, BALDOCK, and KAYATTA, Circuit Judges.

KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves several issues, including a legal question we have not previously considered: Under what circumstances, if any, can an employer be held liable for sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it terminates a worker whose job performance has been maligned by a jilted co-worker intent on revenge? We answer that the employer faces liability if: the co-worker acted, for discriminatory reasons, with...

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