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- Title: In re L.D.H.
- Author : District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
- Release Date : January 24, 2001
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 50 KB
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Appellant Nadine Wilburn served for a time as the Interim Director of the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights ("OHR") and, in 2003, she was on the short list of candidates being considered for appointment as permanent OHR Director. After then-Mayor Anthony Williams appointed someone else to the position, Wilburn sued appellees -- the District of Columbia and Kelvin Robinson, the Mayors Chief of Staff -- under the District of Columbia Whistleblower Protection Act (the "DC-WPA"). She alleged that Robinson engineered Wilburns non-appointment in retaliation for statements she made to the Council of the District of Columbia (the "Council") criticizing the performance of Curtis Lewis & Associates ("CLA"), a law firm that held a contract with OHR to perform reviews of discrimination complaints and draft determination letters. The Superior Court granted defendants/appellees motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, holding that the complaint did not causally link Wilburns alleged protected disclosure to the personnel action complained of, and thus failed to state a prima facie case of retaliation. We affirm the judgment dismissing the complaint, although on a basis different from the one on which the trial court relied.