Garcia v. Gloor: Mutable Characteristics Rationale Extended to National Origin Discrimination

Authors

Dwight J. Davis

Publication Date

7-1981

Document Type

Casenote

Abstract

In Garcia v. Gloor, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court ruling that an employer's policy requiring employees to speak only English while at work did not violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibition against national origin discrimination. In so ruling, the court extended the mutable-immutable characteristics rationale that the Fifth Circuit first outlined in Willingham v. Macon Telegraph Publishing Co.

Recommended Citation

Davis, Dwight J. (1981) "Garcia v. Gloor: Mutable Characteristics Rationale Extended to National Origin Discrimination," Mercer Law Review: Vol. 32: No. 4, Article 15.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.mercer.edu/jour_mlr/vol32/iss4/15