Legal Opinion
Aloha Islandair Inc. v. Linda Tseu, Executive Director, Hawaii Civil Rights Commission Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, State of Hawaii
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 14, 1997No. 95-16656PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM A. NORRIS, Circuit Judge:
This action was brought by Aloha Islandair, Inc. (“Islandair”) seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission and its Executive Director, Linda Tseu, from applying and enforcing the disability discrimination provisions of Haw.Rev.Stat. § 378-2(1), against Islandair with respect to a monocular pilot applicant, Bruce Pied (“Pied”). •
Islandair has a policy of not hiring monocular pilots. In 1991 Pied filed a charge of disability discrimination with the Commission. In 1994 he filed a second disability discrimination…
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