Karen Frances Ulane v. Eastern Airlines, Inc., Frank Borman, Thomas R. Buttion, David P. Millett, and Robert Shipner, 1981-1986

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Karen Frances Ulane v. Eastern Airlines, Inc., Frank Borman, Thomas R. Buttion, David P. Millett, and Robert Shipner, 1981-1986

1981-1986

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The plaintiff, Karen Frances Ulane, was hired in 1968 as Kenneth Ulane to serve as a pilot for the defendant, Eastern Airlines, Inc. Ulane was fired in 1981 and filed a charge of sexual discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which issued a right to sue letter. This civil case is a result. Ulane alleges she was discriminated against as a female, and as a transsexual in violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The U.S. District Court judge ruled in favor of Ulane on both counts after a bench trial. The case was appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, where the trial court's decision was reversed. The U.S. District Court case file includes the complaint, affidavits, exhibits, notices, motions, depositions, and the transcript of proceedings.

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Borman, Frank, 1928-

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Frank Borman, U.S. Astronaut who led the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission and Chief Executive Officer of Eastern Airlines from 1975-1986, was born in Gary, Indiana, March 14, 1928. Raised in Tucson, Arizona, where he learned to fly at age 15, Borman attended U.S. Military Academy, West Point and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1950, thus beginning a 20-year career in the U.S. Air Force. He received a Masters of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from the California Institute of ...

Ulane, Karen, 1941-1989

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Karen Ulane,was an American airline pilot who was dismissed by Eastern Airlines after undergoing sex reassignment surgery in 1980. Ulane filed a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission which resulted in the civil case, Ulane v. Eastern Airlines. Although she won the case against Eastern, it was overturned on appeal the in U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Ulane died in a plane crash approximately five miles southwest of DeKalb, Illinois on May 22, 1989...