HEAD v. WILKIE

No. 17-55942.

936 F.3d 1007 (2019)

Christian HEAD, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert WILKIE, Secretary of Department of Veterans Affairs; Dean Norman, M.D.; Donna M. Beiter, R. N. M.S.N., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 5, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zane E. Hilton (argued), Lawrance A. Bohm , and Bradley J. Mancuso , Bohm Law Group Inc., Sacramento, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Chung H. Han (argued), Special Assistant United States Attorney; David M. Harris , Chief, Civil Division; Nicola T. Hanna , United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Los Angeles, California; for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: A. Wallace Tashima and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges, and Gary S. Katzmann, Judge.


OPINION

Christian Head, M.D., is an African-American, board-certified head and neck surgeon who held dual appointments for over a decade at the Department of Veterans Affairs ("VA") and University of California, Los Angeles ("UCLA"). In 2014, Head filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against the Secretary of...

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