LEONEL v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.

Nos. 03-15890, 03-15893, 03-15897.

400 F.3d 702 (2005)

Walber LEONEL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., Defendant-Appellee. Richard Branton, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. American Airlines, Inc., Defendant-Appellee. Vincent Fusco, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. American Airlines, Inc., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 4, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Todd M. Schneider, Guy B. Wallace and Wendy E. Musell, Schneider & Wallace, and Kathleen McCormac, McCormac & Associates, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Paula Champagne, Littler Mendelson, P.C., San Francisco, CA, and Kenneth R. O'Brien and Dylan W. Wiseman, Littler Mendelson, Sacramento, CA, for the defendant-appellee.

Claudia Center, The Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, San Francisco, California, for the amicus curiae.

Before: CUDAHY, GRABER and FISHER, Circuit Judges.


FISHER, Circuit Judge:

Appellants Walber Leonel, Richard Branton and Vincent Fusco, who all have the human immunodeficiency virus ("HIV"), applied for flight attendant positions with American Airlines ("American"). Although they went through the application process at different times, the process was essentially the same for all of them. American interviewed them at its Dallas, Texas, headquarters and then issued them conditional...

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