Department of public safety trooper Billy Spears filed the civil lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging retaliation by DPS, Director Steven McCraw and several executives.
Poitier explains that he, and not the director, added the retaliation to the script.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reassigning a senior official who has come under criticism from members of Congress and the F.B.I.'s own director over his apparent retaliation against an employee who had publicly criticized the bureau.
But Keith Luse, the committee's staff director, said his staff took the allegations of retaliation "very seriously".
"You can't fire someone simply in retaliation for the content of their speech," Christopher Dunn, associate legal director of the group, said yesterday.
One week later, assistant director Ed Lowery suggested leaking embarrassing information about Chaffetz in retaliation for aggressive investigations by the House oversight and government reform committee into a series of agency missteps and scandals, the report said.
Molly Smith, public relations director for Sony PlayStation, said the company has no immediate plans for retaliation.
Dr. Van Heerden, coastal scientist and former Deputy Director of the LSU Hurricane Center, alleges that LSU officials fired him in retaliation for his criticism of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' workmanship, which led to massive and widespread levee failures during Katrina.
In retaliation, Lush has trademarked the name "Christopher North", which is the name of the Amazon.co.uk managing director, and has created a new shower gel named after him with the unflattering tagline "rich, thick and full of it".
Habiba Abdulle, the executive director Alberta Somali community center, told VICE News on Monday that fear of far-right retaliation against the Somali community is high in Edmonton.
