California Court of Appeal

In a claim for job discrimination based upon sexual orientation, summary judgment in favor of defendant-Washington Mutual Bank is reversed in part and remanded where: 1) triable issues of fact existed concerning whether plaintiff timely exhausted her administrative remedies as to the existence of discrimination; 2) the cases is remanded because plaintiff may not maintain an action for job retaliation defendant-coworker; and 3) the court did not err in its finding that plaintiff could not raise triable issues of fact on her punitive damages claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/21/2008
• Published 11/21/2008

Judges

• RUBIN, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Danz & Associates, Stephen F. Danz and Ann Guleser, Sherman Oaks;  Law Offices of Jerry Webb and Jerry Webb, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jackson Lewis, Mia Farber, Sherry L. Swieca and Suzanna Krkeyan, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Respondent Washington Mutual Bank., Smith & Myers and Thomas O. Myers, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Respondent Javier Gutierrez.