An employee who used copies of confidential company documents to bolster her gender-discrimination case did not engage in protected activity, an appeals court held Tuesday in a case of first impression.
The Appellate Division reversed a $10,649,117 judgment in Quinlan v. Curtiss-Wright Corp. , A-5728-06, and remanded for a new trial because the trial judge erroneously instructed the jury that it was permissible for the plaintiff’s lawyers to use the documents in pursuing her claims and that the company could not fire her on that basis.
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