Legal Opinion
Wood v. City of San Diego
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 9, 2012No. 10-56826PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Janet Wood (“Wood”) brought suit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, alleging that the surviving spouse benefit provided by the City of San Diego (“the City”) to its retired employees discriminates on the basis of sex. The district court dismissed Wood’s disparate treatment and disparate impact claims and entered judgment in favor of the City. We affirm.
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Wood retired in 2005 after over thirty-two years as an employee of the City. 1 Like all City employees, Wood participated in the City’s defined benefit pension plan, which is administered by the…
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