Legal Opinion
Margarita SERAPION, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Fred H. MARTINEZ, Et Al., Defendants, Appellees
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 18, 1997No. 96-2251PublishedCited by 168 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to explore a gray-area in the emerging jurisprudence of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e to 2000e-17 (1994). Having completed that task, we conclude that while Title VII’s employment-related shelter might in certain circumstances extend to a person who is a partner in a law firm, plaintiff-appellant Margarita Serapión, a partner in the now-disbanded law firm of Martinez, Odell, Calabria & Sierra (the Firm), is not entitled to such shelter here. Consequently, we affirm the lower court’s entry of summary judgment in the defendants’ favor.
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