California Court of Appeal

A male executive's order to fire a female employee because she fails to meet the executive's standards for sexual attractiveness is an act of sex discrimination when no similar standards are applied to men. A lower-level manager's refusal to carry out that order is protected activity, and an employer may not retaliate against her for that refusal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/07/2003
• Published 03/07/2003

Judges

• GEMELLO, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Herbert W. Yanowitz, San Francisco, for plaintiff and appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Morgenstein & Jubelirer, William J. Carroll, David H. Bromfield, San Francisco, for defendant and respondent.