Legal Opinion
Fulton v. Department of Social & Health Services
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided June 26, 2012No. 41499-6-IIPublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, J.
¶1 Jo-Ann Fulton appeals the superior court’s grant of summary judgment to the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) and dismissal of her gender discrimination claim under the Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD), chapter 49.60 RCW. She argues that the superior court erred in ruling that she had failed to establish a prima facie case because (1) under analogous federal law, DSHS’s failure to post or to accept applications for the Operations Manager position relieved her of the duty to “apply for” promotion to the position; (2) she introduced evidence that she was “qualified…
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