METOYER v. CHASSMAN

No. 04-56179.

504 F.3d 919 (2007)

Patricia Heisser METOYER, Plaintiff-counter-defendant-Appellant, v. Leonard CHASSMAN, an individual; John McGuire, an individual, Defendants-Appellees, Screen Actors Guild, Inc., a corporation, Defendant-counter-claimant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 26, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marco Simons and Lauren Teukolsky, Hadsell & Stormer, Inc., Pasadena, CA, for the appellant.

Anne Richardson, Hadsell & Stormer, Inc., Pasadena, CA, for the appellant.

Rick Hicks, Hicks & Hicks, Beverly Hills, CA, for the appellant.

Eugenia Hicks, Hicks & Hicks, Beverly Hills, CA, for the appellant.

Catherine B. Hagen, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Newport Beach, CA, for the appellees.

Eric J. Amdursky, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Newport Beach, CA, for the appellees.

Renee M. Spigarelli, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Newport Beach, CA, for the appellees.

Ryan W. Rutledge, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Newport Beach, CA, for the appellees.

Before: D.W. NELSON, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.


Opinion by Judge D.W. NELSON; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge BEA.

D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge:

In May, 2001 the Screen Actors Guild ("the Guild") fired Dr. Patricia Heisser Metoyer ("Metoyer"), an African American, after PricewaterhouseCoopers ("PwC") concluded Metoyer authorized payment in excess of $30,000 of funds available for Guild use to friends, business partners, and her husband's production company. Metoyer responded by bringing...

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