PHIFFER v. PROUD PARROT MOTOR HOTEL, INC.

No. 78-3420.

648 F.2d 548 (1980)

Lester J. PHIFFER and Abbie Phiffer, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PROUD PARROT MOTOR HOTEL, INC., a California Corporation, Robert Chow and Chao Chow, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Summers, Taylor, Kupfer & Summers, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellants.

Benjamin P. Wasserman, Hermosa Beach, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before SNEED, ANDERSON and TANG, Circuit Judges.


J. BLAINE ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

The defendants appeal a determination of liability and an award of damages and attorney fees to the plaintiffs for the defendants' alleged act of racial discrimination in refusing to rent office space at the Proud Parrot Motor Hotel to plaintiff Lester J. Phiffer. We affirm in part and vacate and remand in part.

I. BACKGROUND

The facts of this case are relatively simple and follow a now familiar pattern in...

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