§12203 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

People must not be punished or treated badly for complaining about or opposing conduct this law bans, or for filing a complaint, testifying, helping, or taking part in an investigation or hearing. It is also illegal to scare, threaten, or interfere with someone for using their rights or for helping another person use theirs. If these rules are broken, the remedies and procedures in sections 12117, 12133, and 12188 apply to subchapters I, II, and III, respectively.

Title 42, §12203

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(a)No person shall discriminate against any individual because such individual has opposed any act or practice made unlawful by this chapter or because such individual made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this chapter.

(b)It shall be unlawful to coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any individual in the exercise or enjoyment of, or on account of his or her having exercised or enjoyed, or on account of his or her having aided or encouraged any other individual in the exercise or enjoyment of, any right granted or protected by this chapter.

(c)The remedies and procedures available under section 12117, 12133, and 12188 of this title shall be available to aggrieved persons for violations of subsections (a) and (b), with respect to subchapter I, subchapter II and subchapter III, respectively.

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References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 101–336, July 26, 1990, 104 Stat. 327, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 12101 of this title and Tables.

§12203 Prohibition against retaliation and coercion