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=== Case review === The court granted review to decide two questions, one substantive and one procedural: (1) should an employee be allowed to sue an employer for hostile "stray remarks" by employees who were not directly involved in the allegedly discriminatory decision at issue; and (2) are specific objections to evidence at the summary judgment stage waived when the trial court fails to rule on specific objections despite oral requests that the trial court do so. The parties thoroughly briefed the issues on the merits; next, the court sat on the case for more than a year; then asked for further supplemental briefing from the parties in April 2010 on the procedural question; and finally scheduled oral argument for May 26, 2010. On August 5, 2010, in an opinion by Justice Ming Chin, the court affirmed the Court of Appeal decision in favor of Reid and remanded to the lower courts for further proceedings. The Court refused to adopt the "stray remarks" doctrine pioneered by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, because remarks by non-decisionmakers may be circumstantial evidence relevant to discriminatory actions (in the sense that hostile co-workers can manipulate a supervisor); and written objections to evidence are preserved for appeal regardless of whether the trial court rules upon them or whether counsel even argues them orally before the court. In other words, Google won on the procedural question, but Reid won on the substantive question, meaning that he would be able to introduce a much broader range of evidence of Google's alleged atmosphere of discrimination to the trier of fact. The case attracted media attention, with briefs filed by the AARP on Reid's behalf and the California Employment Law Council for Google. The case was settled out of court for undisclosed terms. From July 2005 to 2019, Reid worked at the Internet Systems Consortium, with various titles including head of engineering, operations, and communication.
== Personal life == Reid is an active photographer and has sponsored the Leica User's Group, an e-mail discussion list, for almost two decades. Reid is a practicing Anglican and president of the Society of Archbishop Justus. He is an editor of Anglicans Online and sat on the board of Doane Academy, an Episcopal Pre K-12 school in Burlington, New Jersey.
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Reid, Brian K. (1980). "A high-level approach to computer document formatting". Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages - POPL '80. ACM. pp. 24–31. doi:10.1145/567446.567449. ISBN 978-0-89791-011-8. S2CID 3095110. Reid, Brian (1991). "Reflections on some recent widespread computer break-ins". Computers under attack: Intruders, worms, and viruses. ACM. pp. 145–149. doi:10.1145/102616.102626. ISBN 978-0-201-53067-4. Reid, Brian (February 1987). "Viewpoint". Communications. 30 (2). ACM: 103–105. doi:10.1145/12527.315716.