What is the difference between threatening to file a charge and actually filing a charge?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Gifford v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Ry. Co., 685 F.2d 1149 (9th Cir. 1982):

3 We see no legal distinction to be made between the filing of a charge which is clearly protected, Sias v. City Demonstration Agency, 588 F.2d 692, 694-95 (9th Cir. 1978), and threatening to file a charge.

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