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Hispanic Screenwriter
Who Contended That Paying
Hispanics 1/2 of That Paid
Non-Hispanics is Discrimination Has Filed a Petition for
Rehearing En Banc Before 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
9th Circuit Court of Appeals Panel in Unpublished
Decision Had Upheld Dismissal of
Hispanic Screenwriter's Lawsuit Against CBS and the Writers Guild for
Latino 1/2 Pay Program.
JULY 9, 2004, SAN FRANCISCO ― Migdia Chinea-Varela, the Hispanic Screenwriter who contended that paying Hispanic Screenwriters 1/2 of that paid to non-Hispanic Screenwriters amounts to discrimination, today filed, in the San Francisco based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, a Petition for Rehearing En Banc, for rehearing before eleven Judges.
This Petition was filed after a three Judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in an unpublished decision, dated June 25, 2004, upheld the dismissal of the Hispanic Screenwriter's lawsuit against CBS and the Writers Guild, holding that the Latino 1/2 Pay Program did not amount to discrimination.
The most recent Complaint, on the case which had been to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals once previously, had alleged discrimination and harassment against Hispanic Screenwriters by CBS and the Writers Guild of America, west, and also alleged retaliation by CBS and the Writers Guild and their officers Jeff Sagansky, Charles D. Segars, Frank Pierson and Brian Walton.
The Plaintiff has vowed to take this significant and important case to the United States Supreme Court, if necessary, so that she can have her day in Court, and to have a jury rule that paying Hispanic Screenwriters 1/2 of that paid to non-Hispanics is discrimination.
August 5, 2004 UPDATE, SAN FRANCISCO ― 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Petition for Rehearing.
November 3, 2004 UPDATE, WASHINGTON, D.C. ― Migdia Chinea-Varela files Petition for Writ of Certiorari with the Supreme Court of the United States.
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