Legal Opinion
Ram N Zapata-Matos v. Reckitt & Colman, Inc., F/k/a L&f Products
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 14, 2002No. 00-2546PublishedCited by 108 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Ramón Zapata-Matos was terminated in 1993 from his position with L & F Products as General Manager for all operations in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the Caribbean. He had been with the company since 1983 and had received a number of promotions, although in 1992 the company declined to create and promote him to a Regional Director’s position as he had requested. Zapata’s employment was terminated on September 28, 1993. He sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2 (1994), saying he had been discriminated against on the basis of his national…
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