CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries

CBOCS West v. Humphries
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 20, 2008 Decided June 30, 2008
Full case name	CBOCS West, Inc., v. Hedrick G. Humphries
Docket no.	06-1431
Citations	553 U.S. 442 (more) 128 S. Ct. 1951; 170 L. Ed. 2d 864
Holding
Petitioner can claim retaliation in 42 U.S.C. §1981
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Case opinions
Majority	Breyer, joined by Roberts, Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Alito
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Scalia
Laws applied
Civil Rights Act of 1866

CBOCS West, Inc., v. Hedrick G. Humphries, 553 U.S. 442 (2008), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the petitioner, Hedrick Humphries, was unfairly retaliated against by CBOCS West Inc. for complaining to managers about the dismissal of another black employee for race reasons. The court found that CBOCS West Inc. had violated the Civil Rights Act of 1871 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.