Legal Opinion
Laxton v. Gap Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 6, 2003No. 02-40406PublishedCited by 549 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VANCE, District Judge:
Plaintiff-Appellant Joanna Laxton appeals from the district court’s order granting defendant-appellee Gap, Inc. judgment as a matter of law in this case brought under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. For the following reasons, we REVERSE and REMAND.
I. BACKGROUND
Drawing all inferences in favor of the non-moving party, as we must when reviewing the grant of judgment as a matter of law, the factual background of this lawsuit is as follows. In March 1999, Gap recruited Laxton, the general manager of a Stein Mart department store in Tyler, Texas, to become the general…
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