Legal Opinion
Francine M. Neilson v. Colgate-Palmolive Company and Colgate Palmolive S.A. De C.V.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 2, 1999No. 867, Docket 98-7489PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge SOTOMAYOR dissents in part in a separate opinion.
JACOBS, Circuit Judge and SAND, District Judge':
Francine Neilson brought. suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Rakoff, /.), alleging sex and race discrimination on the part of her former employers, Colgate-Palmolive Company and Colgate Palmolive S.A. de C.V. (collectively, “Colgate”). The district court appointed a guardian ad li-tem for Neilson, who (it was learned) had been committed to psychiatric hospitals. The guardian ad litem negotiated a settlement on Neilson’s behalf, the court approved…
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