NEILSON v. COLGATE-PALMOLIVE CO.

No. 867, Docket 98-7489.

199 F.3d 642 (1999)

Francine M. NEILSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY and Colgate Palmolive S.A. de C.V., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 2, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith P. Vladeck, New York, N.Y. (Laura S. Schnell, Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C., on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Bettina B. Plevan, New York, N.Y. (Reginald D. Odom, Gregory D. Wong, Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn LLP, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: JACOBS and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, and SAND, District Judge.


Judge SOTOMAYOR dissents in part in a separate opinion.

JACOBS, Circuit Judge and SAND, District Judge:

Francine Neilson brought suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Rakoff, J.), alleging sex and race discrimination on the part of her former employers, Colgate-Palmolive Company and Colgate Palmolive S.A. de C.V. (collectively, "Colgate"). The district court appointed a guardian ad litem for Neilson, who (it...

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