United States Ninth Circuit

Summary judgment to an employer on Title VII sex discrimination claims brought by an employee who was terminated for failing to comply with a workplace makeup requirement is affirmed since, although appearance standards such as makeup requirements may well be the subject of a Title VII claim for sexual stereotyping, plaintiff failed to create any triable issue of fact that the challenged policy was part of a policy motivated by sex stereotyping.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/22/2005
• Decided 04/14/2006
• Published 04/14/2006

Judges

• SCHROEDER, Chief Judge., Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, PREGERSON, KOZINSKI, RYMER, SILVERMAN, GRABER, W. FLETCHER, TALLMAN, CLIFTON, CALLAHAN, and BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jennifer C. Pizer, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant., Kenneth J. McKenna, Kenneth James McKenna, Inc., Reno, NV, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick H. Hicks and Veronica Arechederra Hall, Littler Mendelson, P.C., Las Vegas, NV, for the defendant-appellee.