Legal Opinion
Peter Odima v. Westin Tucson Hotel, a Delaware Corporation, AKA Westin Hotels
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 28, 1995No. 94-15839PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We revisit a Title VII employment discrimination case which comes back to us after remand for further findings surrounding the plaintiff’s six attempts to transfer out of a hotel laundry and into the hotel’s accounting department.
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Odima is a Nigerian-born black man who was employed in the laundry at the Westin La Paloma Resort in Tucson, Arizona. After six unsuccessful attempts to transfer out of the laundry, Odima filed suit claiming that Westin had discriminated against him on the basis of race and nationality in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981, Title VII, and…
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