United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit against brought by Boeing employees alleging they were discriminated against in their employment on the basis of their race, defendant's motion to dismiss the appeal and summary judgment for defendant on a claim are denied and affirmed, respectively, where: 1) the named plaintiffs had, and continued to have, standing for their individual pre-2000 compensation discrimination claim; and 2) on the merits, the district court properly held that the pre-2000 compensation discrimination claim was barred by the statute of limitation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/11/2008
• Decided 02/27/2008
• Published 02/27/2008

Judges

• TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ROBERT R. BEEZER, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steve W. Berman, Craig R. Spiegel (argued), Ivy D. Arai, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Seattle, WA, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Reiss (argued), David C. Tarshes, Kristina Silja Bennard, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle, WA, for the appellee.