Hector GARCIA, etc., Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Alton V. W. GLOOR et al., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 4, 1980.
January 4, 1980.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James A. Herrmann, Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc., Harlingen, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.
Ruben Rendon, San Francisco, Cal., for Mexican Amer. Legal Defense & Ed. Fund.
Joel G. Contreras, Vilma S. Martinez, San Francisco, Cal., William H. Ng, Washington, D. C., for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
O. C. Hamilton, Neil Norquest, McAllen, Tex., for defendants-appellees.
Jerry Nugent, Austin, Tex., for Lumberman's Association of Texas.
Before FAY, RUBIN and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
Invoking Title VII, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2 [EEO Act], Hector Garcia, a native-born American of Mexican descent, challenges as discriminatory his employer's rule that prohibits employees engaged in sales work from speaking Spanish on the job. We find that the "speak-only-English" rule, as it was applied by Mr. Garcia's employer, does not discriminate on...
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