United States Ninth Circuit

In an employment discrimination action alleging retaliation for filing an Equal Employment Opportunity complaint, judgment for Defendant is affirmed, where, so long as the jury instructions set forth the essential elements a plaintiff must prove, a District Court does not abuse its discretion in declining to give an instruction explicitly addressing pretext.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/03/2009
• Decided 05/22/2009
• Published 05/22/2009

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  SUSAN P. GRABER, RAYMOND C. FISHER and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Beth Creighton (argued), Zan Tewksbury, Steenson, Schumann, Tewksbury, Creighton & Rose, Portland, OR, for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karin J. Immergut, United States Attorney, Kelly A. Zusman (argued), Assistant United States Attorney, Portland, OR, for defendants-appellees.