Villaflores v. Alaska State Commission for Human Rights

OPINION

EASTAUGH, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

After Clarito Villaflores applied for a job with ConocoPhillips and was not hired, he filed a complaint with the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights, alleging discrimination based on age and race. The commission, through staff, determined that Villaflores’s complaint was not supported by substantial evidence because Villaflores was not qualified for the job, and because Cono-coPhillips had not known Villaflores’s race and hired an applicant of the same age class as Villaflores. In seeking reconsideration, Villaflores disputed the commission’s…