University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar

Nassar (plaintiff), a doctor of Middle Eastern descent working for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (University) at Parkland Memorial Hospital (defendant), believed his supervisor Dr. Beth Levine discriminated against him based on ethnicity; upon resigning from the University to continue working at the hospital independently, he wrote a scathing letter accusing Levine of discrimination, after which Levine's supervisor, Dr. Gregory Fitz, convinced the hospital not to hire Nassar. Nassar sued for Title VII retaliation, and the jury found for him, with the Fifth Circuit affirming under a lessened causation standard requiring only that retaliation be one motivating factor.