ZAMORA v. ELITE LOGISTICS, INC.

No. 04-3205.

478 F.3d 1160 (2007)

Ramon ZAMORA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ELITE LOGISTICS, INC., Defendant-Appellee. Kansas Hispanic & Latino American Affairs Commission; Hispanic Ministry for The Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas; El Centro, Inc.; Apoyo Trabajador de Lawrence/Migrant Worker Solidarity of Lawrence; Harvest America Corporation; National Immigration Law Center, El Centro, Inc.; Interfaith Worker Justice; International Brotherhood of Teamsters; Kansas City Worker Justice Project; Laborers International Union of North America; National Council of La Raza; Service Employees International Union; United Food and Commercial Worker's Union, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

February 26, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Ho, The Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, San Francisco, California (William N. Nguyen and Sharon Terman, The Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, San Francisco, California, and Aldo Caller, Law Offices of Aldo C. Caller, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellant Ramon Zamora.

Ryan B. Denk (Carl A. Gallagher, with him on the briefs), McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, P.A., Kansas City, Kansas, for Defendant-Appellee Elite Logistics, Inc.

Marielena Hincapie, National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles, California, on the brief for Amici Curiae National Immigration Law Center; El Centro, Inc.; Harvest America Corporation; Interfaith Worker Justice; International Brotherhood of Teamsters; Kansas City Worker Justice Project; Laborers International Union of North America; National Council of La Raza; Service Employees International Union; United Food and Commercial Workers Union.

Before TACHA, Chief Judge, HOLLOWAY, EBEL, KELLY, HENRY, BRISCOE, LUCERO, MURPHY, HARTZ, O'BRIEN, McCONNELL, TYMKOVICH, GORSUCH, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.


EBEL, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellant Ramon Zamora sued his former employer, Defendant-Appellee Elite Logistics, Incorporated ("Elite"), under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, alleging Elite discriminated against Zamora because of his race and national origin 1) by suspending Zamora from work until he presented documentation establishing his right to work in the United States; and 2) then, after reinstating Zamora, firing him after he requested an apology. The...

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