Court Opinion

ID: 9817193
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 04:05:32.669864+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:08:12.687380
License: Public Domain

BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
I concur reluctantly in the majority’s opinion. I find application of the apparent current law particularly unjust where the letter-writer’s reference letter:
(1) is apparently in retaliation for the plaintiffs initiating administrative proceedings against the wrongdoing of a colleague;
(2) contains an inaccurate suggestion that the plaintiff may have misused university property;
(3) likely cost plaintiff a job offer; and
(4) left plaintiff unaware that the subsequent letter at issue had supplanted an earlier favorable letter from the same ad-visor and senior colleague.