HALL v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Where attorney employed by county created entity that provided county counsel with "independent contractors" to assist in juvenile court cases brought suit alleging gender-based wage discrimination on the theory that the entity was merely a "payrolling scheme" enabling county counsel to maintain a two tier attorney work force where female attorneys were channeled into the independent contracting entity and worked for substantially lower pay and benefits than those in the predominantly male county counsel unit performing the same work under the same conditions district court properly granted summary judgment to defendants where evidence provided no basis for attorney's use of a male county counsel lawyer as a comparator, and wage disparity was based on a gender neutral business reason.
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