Nairn v. Jones

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• holding that plaintiff who alleged discrimination on the basis of his Mexican-American descent had stated a valid claim under section 1981
• holding that a plaintiff who alleged discrimination on the basis on his Mexican-American descent had stated a valid claim under Section 1981
• holding that plaintiff of Mexican-American descent had stated a claim of racial discrimination since the group to which he belonged is “of such an identifiable nature that the treatment afforded its members may be measured against that afforded Anglos.”
• recognizing that while a Mexican-American identity is not necessarily a race, community attitudes differentiating Hispanic people from “Anglos” are sufficiently akin to racial prejudice to assert a 42 U.S.C. § 1981 claim of discrimination against Mexican-Americans
• “Section 1981 does not apply to sex . . . discrimination.”
• “Thus plaintiff has alleged that there has been or is discrimination against him by defendants by reason of the fact he is of Mexican American origin, and this is a sufficient identification of a group within the protection of section 1981.”

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