Robinson v. Shell Oil Co.

Robinson v. Shell Oil Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 6, 1996 Decided February 18, 1997
Full case name	Charles T. Robinson, Sr. v. Shell Oil Company
Citations	519 U.S. 337 (more) 117 S. Ct. 843; 136 L. Ed. 2d 808
Case history
Prior	70 F.3d 325 (4th Cir. 1995); cert. granted, 517 U.S. 1154 (1996).
Holding
Because the term "employees," as used in § 704(a) of Title VII, includes former employees, petitioner may sue respondent for its allegedly retaliatory postemployment actions.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinion
Majority	Thomas, joined by unanimous

Robinson v. Shell Oil Company, 519 U.S. 337 (1997), is US labor law case in the United States Supreme Court in which the Court unanimously held that under federal law, U.S. employers must not engage in workplace discrimination such as writing bad job references, or otherwise retaliating against former employees as a punishment for filing job discrimination complaints.