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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Hispanic Screenwriter
Who Contended That Paying
Hispanics 1/2 of That Paid
Non-Hispanics is Discrimination Has Filed a Petition for
Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States.
9th Circuit Court of Appeals Panel in Unpublished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.
NOVEMBER 13, 2004,
WASHINGTON, D.C./LOS ANGELES ― Notice was given today that the Supreme
Court of the United States has placed on its docket on November 4, 2004, the
Petition for a Writ of Certiorari in the matter of Migdia Chinea-Varela aka
Migdia C. Varela v. CBS Broadcasting, Inc., et al., as Case No. 04-605.
Petitioner, Migdia Chinea-Varela, the Hispanic Screenwriter who contended
that paying Hispanic Screenwriters 1/2 of that paid to non-Hispanic
Screenwriters amounts to discrimination, filed her Petition with the Supreme
Court on November 3, 2004, raising three legal issues, one of which is "Does
paying a Hispanic screenwriter approximately one-half of the amount that is paid
to those of other national origins merely because one is of Hispanic national
origin amount to discrimination?"
This
Petition was filed after a three Judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals,
on August 5, 2004, denied a Petition for Rehearing of their ruling in an unpublished
memorandum decision, dated June 25, 2004, which had upheld the dismissal of the
Hispanic Screenwriter's lawsuit against CBS (now an indirect wholly owned
subsidiary of Viacom Inc.) and the Writers Guild of America, west, 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, and also
alleged retaliation by CBS and the Writers Guild and their officers Jeff Sagansky, Charles D. Segars, Frank Pierson and Brian Walton.
In
filing her Petition to the Supreme Court, the Petitioner has made good on her
prior vow to take this significant and important case to the United States
Supreme Court, if necessary, which it has now become required by virtue of the
9th Circuit ruling. Petitioner seeks to not only have her day in Court,
but also to have the Court make the obvious holding, albeit overlooked by the
lower Courts, that paying Hispanic Screenwriters 1/2 of that paid to
non-Hispanics amounts to discrimination.
For More Information Contact:
Scott D. Myer
MYER LAW FIRM
1800 Century Park East, Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA 90067
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