United States Ninth Circuit
LAUGHON v. INT'L ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES, MOVING PICTURE TECHNICIANS, ARTISTS & ALLIED CRAFTS OF THE US & CANADA, 99-15812
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International union did not have an agency relationship with union local where local had the authority to hire its own staff, establish membership procedures, and elect its own staff, so the international union is not liable for local's gender discrimination in membership.
Appellate Information
- Argued 11/15/2000
- Decided 04/30/2001
- Published 04/30/2001
Judges
- Before: WALLACE, FISHER and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Roderick P. Bushnell, Bushnell, Caplan & Fielding, San Francisco, California, and Linda J. Sloven, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.
- For Appellees:
- David Adelstein and Robert A. Bush, Geffner & Bush, Burbank, California, for the defendant-appellee.