United States Sixth Circuit

In plaintiff's suit for employment discrimination and retaliation under Title VII, claiming that he was terminated from his position as a pilot with defendant airline company because he was an Arab-American and Muslim, district court's judgment in favor of the defendant is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff has not satisfied the requirement that an employee exhaust administrative remedies with regard to a claim of hostile work environment under Title VII before bringing suit on that claim in federal court; 2) plaintiff also failed to exhaust his administrative remedies on the retaliation claim; and 3) district court did not err in granting summary judgment on plaintiff's disparate treatment claim as he did not establish a Title VII violation circumstantially because he could not show that he was treated in all relevant respects less favorably than a similarly situated pilot with the defendant company at the rank of captain.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/30/2010
• Published 06/30/2010

Judges

• Daughtrey, J.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• W. Chris Harrison