Legal Opinion
Lester J. Phiffer and Abbie Phiffer v. Proud Parrot Motor Hotel, Inc., a California Corporation, Robert Chow and Chao Chow
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 24, 1980No. 78-3420PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. BLAINE ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
The defendants appeal a determination of liability and an award of damages and attorney fees to the plaintiffs for the defendants’ alleged act of racial discrimination in refusing to rent office space at the Proud Parrot Motor Hotel to plaintiff Lester J. Phiffer. We affirm in part and vacate and remand in part.
I. BACKGROUND
The facts of this case are relatively simple and follow a now familiar pattern in federal civil rights litigation. Plaintiff Lester J. Phiffer, a black man, is an agent with Farmers Insurance Group. On August 31, 1977, Phiffer inquired at…
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