Court Opinion

ID: 9439863
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 06:46:03.169673+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:26:37.794283
License: Public Domain

STAHL, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
Because I disagree with the majority’s reading of the record, I would remand in order to give the district court the opportunity to consider restoration of plaintiffs “very good” rating and reinstatement of plaintiff to his fraud inspector’s job. Given plaintiffs refusal to comply with a reassignment which he alleged to have been unlawful and in retaliation for protected behavior, the district court reasoned that it need not reach those issues. This decision of the district court was erroneous. Cf. Garcia v. Lawn, 805 F.2d 1400, 1401-02 (9th Cir.1986) (holding that district court was not without power to reinstate plaintiff even though plaintiff had been dismissed during the pendency of his case for failure to report to an allegedly unlawful reassignment). Accordingly, this case should be remanded for consideration of these claims and possible equitable relief under Title VII.