Legal Opinion
Arturo B. SANCHEZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. the TEXAS COMMISSION ON ALCOHOLISM, an Agency of the State of Texas, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 5, 1981No. 81-1136PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Appellant, Arturo Sanchez, brought suit claiming that the Texas Commission on Alcoholism discriminated against him on ethnic grounds by denying him a promotion in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C.A. § 2000e et seq. (1976). The district court held for the defendant Commission. We affirm.
Arturo Sanchez is a Mexican-American who had worked in the El Paso office of the Texas Commission on Alcoholism since 1974. The Commission is a state agency designed to help alcoholics deal with the problems of alcoholism. In late September 1976,…
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