Bowyer v. District of Columbia, No. 13-7012 (D.C. Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePlaintiffs, investigators with the Department, filed suit against the District under the D.C. Whistleblower Protection Act, D.C. Code 1-615.51 et seq., alleging that they were unlawfully reassigned to a less desirable position in retaliation for disclosures they allegedly made accusing their superiors of gross mismanagement and racial discrimination in the workplace. The unrebutted explanation the District has offered is that the Department reassigned plaintiffs because District prosecutors refused to work with either of them and not because they had filed Equal Employment Opportunity complaints with the Department alleging racial discrimination. Because plaintiffs failed to rebut this explanation, the court held that they have failed to demonstrate a genuine issue of disputed fact sufficient to survive summary judgment on their claim. Accordingly, the court affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to the District.
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