Denial of Preferred Office Space May be a Materially Adverse Action for a Burlington Northern Retaliation Claim

Paul Mollica’s Daily Developments in EEO Law reported last Wednesday on a First Circuit decision, Lockridge v. University of Southern Maine, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 5018 (1st Cir., March 10, 2010) in which the Court stated that the denial of the employee’s request for office space may be an materially adverse action for purposes of a Title VII retaliation claim after Burlington Northern.