Legal Opinion
Silva v. Hit or Miss
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided August 23, 1999No. 98-11298-JLTPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
TAURO, District Judge.
Plaintiff Clarice Silva — who is allegedly deaf and a minority — began working in Defendant Hit or Miss’s Warehouse in August 1992. After claiming to have caught Silva on videotape stuffing a garment down her pants, Hit or Miss fired her in December 1995.
Silva filed complaints -with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (“MCAD”) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), claiming, inter alia, that Hit or Miss fired her because of her deafness. In October 1996, the MCAD dismissed her complaint for lack of probable cause, and the EEOC…
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