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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Older Black Navy Contracts Employee Fails With Retaliation Suit - Bloomberg Law

A Black former contracts specialist at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center failed to show her 2013 reassignment was retaliation for her earlier internal discrimination charges, the Fourth Circuit ruled Thursday.

According to Cathy Walton, the move from the contracts administration section to the task orders section—when she was roughly 60 years old—amounted to a demotion because it hurt her promotion chances. But she lacked any evidence the Navy’s decision to reassign her was connected to bias charges she filed in 2005 and 2007, the court said.

The six-year gap between the more recent of those charges and Walton’s ...

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