PAMELA POLLOCK, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. TRI-MODAL DISTRIBUTION SERVICES, INC., et al., Defendants and Respondents.
S262699
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA
July 26, 2021
Second Appellate District, Division Eight B294872; Los Angeles County Superior Court BC676917
Justice Liu authored the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye and Justices Corrigan, Cuellar, Kruger, Groban, and Jenkins concurred.
Opinion of the Court by
Plaintiff Pamela Pollock is a customer service representative at defendant Tri-Modal Distribution Services, Inc. (Tri-Modal), a corporation
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I.
Kelso initiated a dating relationship with Pollock in 2014. He wanted the relationship to become sexual, but Pollock refused and ended the relationship in 2016. In this action, Pollock alleges that Tri-Modal and Kelso denied her a series of promotions even though she was the most qualified candidate, and that her refusal to have sex with Kelso was a substantial factor motivating those adverse employment actions. On April 18, 2018, she filed an administrative complaint with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), alleging quid pro quo sexual harassment in violation of the FEHA.
Although Pollock‘s administrative complaint challenged the promotion of several individuals, this appeal concerns the promotion that went to Leticia Gonzalez. Gonzalez received and accepted an offer of promotion in March 2017, and the promotion took effect on May 1, 2017. There is no evidence as to whether or when Tri-Modal notified Pollock that she did not receive the promotion that went to Gonzalez. And there is no evidence that Pollock knew or had reason to know that Gonzalez was offered the promotion and accepted it in March 2017.
The March 2017 and May 2017 dates are relevant because when Pollock filed her administrative complaint,
The trial court concluded that the failure to promote occurred in March 2017, when Gonzalez was offered the promotion and accepted it. Because Pollock did not dispute that Gonzalez received and accepted the promotion offer in March 2017, the court found no triable issue of fact as to Kelso‘s statute of limitations defense and granted his motion for summary judgment.
The Court of Appeal agreed that Pollock‘s claim was time-barred. (Ducksworth v. Tri-Modal Distribution Services (2020) 47 Cal.App.5th 532, 545-547 (Ducksworth); the named plaintiff, Bonnie Ducksworth, is not a party to this appeal.) It explained that “[t]he statute of limitations for a failure to promote runs from when the employer tells employees they have been given (or denied) a promotion. That date is key, and not the date when the promoted worker actually starts the new work.” (Id. at p. 546.) Construing the term “occurred” in
After concluding that the trial court properly granted Kelso‘s summary judgment motion and the summary judgment motions of two other defendants, the Court of Appeal awarded costs on appeal to all three defendants. (Ducksworth, supra, 47 Cal.App.5th at p. 547.) The court did not find, as a predicate to awarding costs, that Pollock‘s underlying claim “was frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless when brought” or that she “continued to litigate after it clearly became so.” (
We granted review.
II.
We begin with the statute of limitations. A statute of limitations “‘does not begin to run until the cause of action accrues,” and a cause of action
At the time of the alleged misconduct here, the FEHA provided that no administrative complaint alleging a violation of its provisions could be filed with the DFEH “after the expiration of one year from the date upon which the alleged unlawful practice or refusal to cooperate occurred.” (
A.
At the outset, we note that Pollock‘s failure to promote claim was pleaded as a quid pro quo sexual harassment claim under
Our precedent explains that the primary difference between discrimination claims and harassment claims is that discrimination claims “address[] only explicit changes in the ‘terms, conditions, or privileges of employment’ [citation]; that is, changes involving some official action taken by the employer.” (Roby v. McKesson Corp. (2009) 47 Cal.4th 686, 706 (Roby), italics added by Roby.) “In the case of
“The FEHA‘s distinction between discrimination and harassment does not mean that harassment claims are relegated to a lower status.” (Roby, supra, 47 Cal.4th at p. 707.) To the contrary, “an aggrieved employee can obtain full compensation for any resulting injury,” whether the alleged unlawful employment practice at issue constitutes discrimination, harassment, or both. (Ibid.) An employee who is the victim of discrimination based on some official action, such as a failure to promote, can “also be the victim of harassment” based on the same or similar underlying conduct. (Ibid.)
Indeed, “[a]lthough discrimination and harassment are separate wrongs, they are sometimes closely interrelated, and even overlapping, particularly with regard to proof.” (Roby, supra, 47 Cal.4th at p. 707.) In a case where a supervisor threatens to deny an employee a promotion unless the employee provides the supervisor with sexual favors and the threat is realized after the employee refuses, the aggrieved employee can bring suit against both the employer and the supervisor. The cause of action against the employer may take the form of a
With this backdrop in mind, we note there are two ways to understand a quid pro quo harassment claim. We express no view on whether one or both views are correct; our case law has not addressed this issue, and it was not briefed by the parties here. One view is that a quid pro quo harassment claim targets essentially the same unlawful conduct as a hostile work environment claim: the communication of an offensive message in the workplace. Hostile work environment harassment occurs when a sufficiently severe or pervasive offensive message is communicated to the aggrieved employee in the workplace (Hughes, supra, 46 Cal.4th at p. 1043); a quid pro quo harassment claim challenging an official employment action can be understood to target the offensive message conveyed by that action namely, the message that an employment benefit has been conditioned on submission to unwanted sexual advances.
Alternatively, quid pro quo harassment may be understood as the very act of conditioning an employment benefit on submission to unwanted sexual advances. The notion is that the act itself comprises a distinct wrong, separate and apart from communication of an offensive message in the workplace. On this view, a quid pro quo harassment claim alleging unlawful denial of a promotion directly challenges the denial as based on forbidden considerations; the promotion denial does not play a meaningfully different role from the one it would play in a discrimination lawsuit brought against an employer.
In this case, we are addressing a quid pro quo sexual harassment claim that Pollock raised against Kelso, her supervisor and the executive vice-president of Tri-Modal. Our task is to determine when the actionable harassment “occurred” within the meaning of
B.
As a textual matter, it is reasonable to say that a failure to promote has “occurred” when the person seeking the promotion has been informed or is
Our task in construing any statute is “to determine the Legislature‘s intent and give effect to the law‘s purpose.” (Lopez v. Sony Electronics, Inc. (2018) 5 Cal.5th 627, 633-634.) When enacting the FEHA, “the Legislature spoke at length about its purposes.” (Harris v. City of Santa Monica (2013) 56 Cal.4th 203, 223.)
The Legislature further declared that in order to eliminate discrimination and harassment in the workplace, “it is necessary to provide effective remedies that will both prevent and deter unlawful employment practices and redress the adverse effects of those practices on aggrieved persons.” (
The Court of Appeal took the view, adopted by Kelso here, that “according to the plain meaning of the word ‘occurred,‘” Pollock‘s injury occurred when Tri-Modal decided not to “promote the deserving Pollock because of sexual harassment.” (Ducksworth, supra, 47 Cal.App.5th at p. 546.) This reading of “occurred” is not unreasonable. But it includes no mention of notice to the employee. The Court of Appeal‘s holding would presumably allow an employer or supervisor to decide not to promote an employee but never inform the employee of that decision, and then later rely on the employer‘s or supervisor‘s own record of when the decision was made to assert that the limitations period for challenging the decision has expired. This is at odds with the principle that
“In order to carry out the purpose of the FEHA to safeguard [this right], the limitations period set out in the FEHA should be interpreted so as to promote the resolution of potentially meritorious claims on the merits.” (Romano, supra, 14 Cal.4th at pp. 493-494.) We have difficulty seeing how it would serve the goal of promoting resolution of potentially meritorious claims to hold that the limitations period for a harassment claim based on a failure to promote may start to run without any notice of the promotion denial to the aggrieved employee. The better view, in light of the FEHA‘s purposes, is that such a claim does not accrue, and the limitations period does not begin to run, until an aggrieved employee knows or reasonably should know of the employer‘s decision not to promote him or her.
Aspects of the Court of Appeal‘s opinion implicitly recognize the importance of notice. At one point, the court said that “[t]he statute of limitations for a failure to promote runs from when the employer tells employees they have been given (or denied) a promotion.” (Ducksworth, supra, 47 Cal.App.5th at p. 546, italics added.) In light of this statement, it is unclear why the court focused on “when Tri-Modal offered and Gonzalez accepted the promotion” (ibid.) instead of when Tri-Modal told Pollock she had been denied the promotion.
Toward the end of its opinion, the Court of Appeal posed a hypothetical in which “Kelso would tell Pollock [in March 2017], ‘Today I am giving this promotion to someone else, even though you deserve it, because you rejected my sexual advances.’ Such a candid admission would describe grossly illegal discrimination that ‘occurred’ in March 2017, when Kelso denied Pollock a benefit she deserved because Kelso wanted sex from her and she would not give it. So that date triggered the one-year clock. That Kelso allegedly was less than candid would not change anything fundamental about this analysis.” (Ducksworth, supra, 47 Cal.App.5th at p. 547.) Kelso need not have spelled out an illicit reason for giving the promotion to someone else for the clock to start running. (See Williams v. City of Belvedere (1999) 72 Cal.App.4th 84, 92-93 (City of Belvedere); post, at p. 17.) But a key fact in the hypothetical is that Kelso informed Pollock of his decision not to promote her. The Court of Appeal did not elucidate the full import of its hypothetical when it held that the moment of injury “occurred” simply when Tri-Modal decided not to promote Pollock. (Ducksworth, at p. 546.) “To the extent [Kelso] may be understood to ask this court to adopt a rule that discourages lawsuits alleging wrongful [failure to promote] by setting the
C.
The parties do not cite, and we have not found, any published authorities on the meaning of “occurred” in
Pollock contends that under Romano, the limitations period for her harassment claim did not begin to run until Gonzalez‘s promotion took effect. But this conflates a promotion with a failure to promote. Consistent with Romano, a promotion may be said to occur when an employee begins working in the new position; until that point, no promotion has occurred, even if the employee has been selected for promotion. But an employer‘s refusal to promote an employee the “unlawful employment practice” alleged here (
Suppose Employees A, B, and C apply for a promotion, and Employee A is the first applicant to be rejected. Once the employer tells Employee A that he or she will not be promoted, the employer‘s refusal to promote Employee A has occurred. (Cf. City of Belvedere, supra, 72 Cal.App.4th at p. 92 [distinguishing Romano and concluding that the statute of limitations began to run in a FEHA failure to hire case when the employer informed the plaintiff by letter that he would not be hired].) It does not matter whether or when the employer decides to promote Employee B or Employee C, or whether or when the promotion takes effect. Pollock‘s approach is unpersuasive because, in many cases, an employer may refuse to promote the aggrieved employee well before promoting another employee. Moreover, Pollock‘s rule provides
In determining how
In Delaware State College v. Ricks (1980) 449 U.S. 250 (Ricks), the high court addressed whether a college professor, Columbus Ricks, “timely complained under the civil rights laws that he had been denied academic tenure because of his national origin.” (Id. at p. 252.) On March 13, 1974, the college board of trustees formally voted to deny Ricks tenure. On June 26, 1974, the college, following its usual practice after denying tenure, offered Ricks a one-year “‘terminal‘” contract expiring on June 30, 1975, which he accepted. (Id. at p. 253 [“When that contract expires, the employment relationship ends.“].) Meanwhile, Ricks filed a grievance with the college board of trustees to contest the tenure denial, and the board denied his grievance on September 12, 1974. On April 4, 1975, Ricks filed a
Rejecting this argument, the high court held that the “alleged discrimination occurred — and the filing limitations period[] therefore commenced — at the time the tenure decision was made and communicated to Ricks.” (Ricks, supra, 449 U.S. at p. 258, italics added; see id. at p. 259 [“the only challenged employment practice” was the denial of tenure, and it “occur[red] before the termination date“].) The EEOC urged the alternative view that the limitations period did not begin until the board denied Ricks‘s grievance on September 12, 1974 because the board could have changed its decision if it had found Ricks‘s grievance meritorious. (Id. at pp. 260-261.) The high court rejected this argument as well, observing that “[t]he grievance procedure, by its nature, is a remedy for a prior decision, not an opportunity to influence that decision before it is made.” (Id. at p. 261.)
The district court in Ricks concluded that the limitations period “had commenced to run by June 26, 1974,” when the college offered Ricks a “‘terminal‘” one-year contract. (Ricks, supra, 449 U.S. at p. 261.) The high court declined to decide “whether the District Court correctly focused on the June 26 date, rather than the date the Board communicated to Ricks its unfavorable tenure decision made at the March 13, 1974, meeting,” because Ricks‘s EEOC complaint was “not timely filed even counting from the June 26 date.” (Id. at p. 262, fn. 17.) The high court explained: “By June 26, the [faculty committee on promotions and tenure] had twice recommended that Ricks not receive tenure; the Faculty Senate had voted to support the tenure committee‘s recommendation; and the Board of Trustees formally had voted to deny Ricks tenure. In light of this unbroken array of negative decisions, the District Court was justified in concluding that the College had established its official position — and made that position apparent to Ricks — no later than June 26, 1974.” (Id. at p. 262, fn. omitted, italics added; see id. at p. 262, fn. 16 [“We recognize . . . that the limitations periods should not commence to run so soon that it becomes difficult for a layman to invoke the protection of the civil rights statutes. [Citations.] But . . . there can be no claim here that Ricks was not abundantly forewarned.“].)
In Romano, we declined to apply Ricks‘s holding under Title VII to a wrongful discharge claim under the FEHA. (Romano, supra, 14 Cal.4th at pp. 495-499.) But nothing we said in Romano casts doubt on Ricks‘s
In Lukovsky v. City and County of San Francisco (9th Cir. 2008) 535 F.3d 1044, the court observed that Ricks “focused on when the plaintiff became aware of the adverse employment decision” and applied this focus to determine when the limitations period began to run on an unlawful failure to hire claim. (Lukovsky, at p. 1050, citing Ricks, supra, 449 U.S. at pp. 258-259, 261-262.) The Ninth Circuit clarified that “the claim accrues upon awareness of the actual injury, i.e., the adverse employment action, and not when the plaintiff suspects a legal wrong.” (Lukovsky, at p. 1049; see id. at p. 1051 [plaintiffs’ claims accrued, and the limitations periods began to run, when they “knew they had been injured and by whom, [citation], even if at that point in time the plaintiffs did not know of the legal injury, i.e., that there was an allegedly discriminatory motive underlying the failure to hire“].) Other federal circuits are in accord. (See, e.g., Hanani v. State of N.J. Dept. of Environmental Protection (3d Cir. 2006) 205 Fed.Appx. 71, 76 [failure to promote]; Amini v. Oberlin College (6th Cir. 2001) 259 F.3d 493, 498-500 (Amini) [failure to hire]; Merrill v. Southern Methodist Univ. (5th Cir. 1986) 806 F.2d 600, 605 [tenure denial].)
In Harris, a police officer, Gerard Harris, alleged (among other claims) that he had been denied promotion to sergeant. (Harris, supra, 186 F.3d at pp. 246-247.) Harris had taken a civil service exam that placed him on a four-year eligibility list for sergeant from April 7, 1989 to April 7, 1993. In August 1991, Harris suffered a back injury in the line of duty; he was placed on “‘restricted duty‘” status and later applied for and received disability benefits. (Id. at p. 246Id. at pp. 247-248; see id. at p. 247 [statute of limitations under the Americans with Disabilities Act,
EEOC and in court challenging the denial of promotion to sergeant were filed too late. (Harris, at pp. 248-249.)
In Miller, an attorney, Elizabeth Miller, alleged that her employer refused to promote her to vice-president in violation of
The district court held that the limitations periods for her failure to promote claim began to run in July 1984, reasoning that “‘Miller does not assert she was unaware that Walsh‘s position was Vice President when she accepted the position as Associate Counsel. Accordingly, Miller had actual knowledge of any alleged discrimination [in the company‘s failure to promote her to vice-president] at the time she accepted and assumed the position in July 1984.‘” (Miller, supra, 977 F.2d at p. 842.) But the Third Circuit cited evidence that from September 1987 to June 1988, Miller‘s supervisor had told her that “she deserved to be a Vice President” and “she would soon be getting the title of Vice President,” and had “recommended Miller for promotion to Vice President.” (Miller, at p. 843.) Miller argued it was not until October 1988, when she was removed from the government relations department, that “it became apparent that she would not be made a Vice President.” (Ibid.) On these facts, the Third Circuit held that the timeliness of her complaint presented a triable issue. (Ibid. [“A reasonable jury could agree with Miller that the statute did not begin to run until October 1988, when she knew or should have known that she would never be made a Vice President.“].)
In this case, Pollock focuses on the effective date of Gonzalez‘s promotion, and Kelso focuses on when Gonzalez received and accepted the promotion offer. Both dates, depending on how Tri-Modal communicated the information, may be relevant evidence of when Pollock knew or should have known she did not get the promotion. But neither is sufficient by itself to trigger the limitations period.
Consistent with the case law construing analogous language in federal antidiscrimination statutes, we hold that a FEHA harassment claim based on a failure to promote accrues, and the limitations period under
D.
The approach we elucidate today “protect[s] defendants from the necessity of defending stale claims and require[s] plaintiffs to pursue their claims diligently.” (Romano, supra, 14 Cal.4th at p. 488; see ibid. [statutes of
This approach also protects the employee‘s interests. Because the clock starts running only when the employee knows or reasonably should know of the adverse promotion decision, any period of time during which the decision is not disclosed or otherwise known to the employee does not count against the limitations period. The rule urged by Kelso, which focuses on the employer‘s moment of decision without requiring notice to the employee, would reward secrecy by employers to the potential detriment of employees with legitimate claims. As noted, we must interpret
Further, by leaving an employee guessing as to when an employer has made an adverse promotion decision, Kelso‘s rule may incentivize plaintiffs to file claims as early as possible to avoid being time-barred, even if the employer (unbeknownst to the employee) has not yet “established its official position.” (Ricks, supra, 449 U.S. at p. 262.) Requiring actual or constructive notice reduces the risk of plaintiffs filing unripe claims. (Cf. Romano, supra, 14 Cal.4th at pp. 494-495 [
In Pollock‘s view, starting the limitations period in a failure to promote case at the point of notice would depart from Romano and thereby create different rules for different circumstances within the FEHA statute of limitations case law. But lack of notice was not at issue in Romano, so we had no occasion to address situations where it may be unclear when the aggrieved employee knew or should have known of the allegedly unlawful conduct. In Romano, the plaintiff was told he would be discharged, but at that point, the employer had not yet discharged him. Here, Tri-Modal denied Pollock a promotion, but we do not know when Pollock learned of the denial. Both cases are consistent with a rule requiring both wrongful conduct by the employer and actual or constructive notice to the employee for the limitations period to start.
Finally, our construction of the FEHA statute of limitations is not at odds with
We reject Kelso‘s argument for two reasons that track the two views of quid pro quo harassment described above. (Ante, at pp. 7-8.) On the first view, which focuses on communication of an offensive message, a quid pro quo harassment claim cannot accrue until the offensive message — here, that an employee was denied a promotion because of her refusal to submit to a supervisor‘s sexual advances — actually or constructively reaches the employee. In other words, notice of the employment action is integral to the existence of a claim of quid pro quo harassment. Such notice cannot be characterized as “delayed discovery of unlawful discriminatory employment acts“; rather, the notice — by virtue of its communicative impact — is a necessary component of the unlawful discriminatory employment act. On this view, the 90-day delayed discovery provision is not relevant to this case.
Under the second view of quid pro quo harassment, the failure to promote Pollock is relevant not because it communicates an offensive message, but instead because it demonstrates that Kelso in fact conditioned a job benefit on Pollock‘s submission to his sexual advances. Kelso asserts that, on this view, the 90-day delayed discovery provision is relevant to Pollock‘s claim because
But Kelso‘s argument misapprehends the import of
We express no view on whether City of Belvedere correctly held that equitable tolling is unavailable in light of the delayed discovery provision. (Cf. McDonald v. Antelope Valley Community College Dist. (2008) 45 Cal.4th 88, 107 [“We discern in [
The provision addresses a situation where “a person allegedly aggrieved by an unlawful practice first obtained knowledge of the facts of the alleged unlawful practice after the expiration of one year from the date of their occurrence.” (
E.
A further question that divides the parties is whether the burden of proving when the employee knew or should have known of the adverse promotion decision falls on the plaintiff or defendant. Pollock argues that because notice to the aggrieved employee is an element the statute of limitations defense, the burden falls on the defendant. Kelso contends that the burden falls on the aggrieved employee to prove lack of knowledge in response to the defendant‘s statute of limitations defense. We hold that Pollock has the better view.
The statute of limitations is an affirmative defense, and as with any affirmative defense, the burden is on the defendant to prove all facts essential to each element of the defense. (
This approach makes sense because the timing and manner of notifying an employee of an adverse promotion decision are often uniquely within the defendant‘s control. The defendant is often a supervisor or employer that has control over the promotion process, and it is such a defendant‘s prerogative to decide if, when, and how an employee will be notified of a promotion decision. To be sure, the employee has personal knowledge that is relevant to the inquiry. And there may be cases where the defendant does not have control over the notification process or where express notification is difficult to effectuate. But, on balance, placing the burden of proof on the defendant properly incentivizes clear and timely notification to the employee by the party that is in the best position to promote clarity and certainty as to when the limitations period begins.
But Kelso has not proven that Pollock‘s claimed harm accrued before the beginning of the one-year statute of limitations period. The Directions for Use for
Kelso relies on Aguilar v. Atlantic Richfield Co. (2001) 25 Cal.4th 826, 850, but that case does not help his argument. Aguilar involved a summary judgment motion contesting a core element of the plaintiff‘s underlying antitrust claim. (Id. at pp. 838-840.) We noted that “how the parties moving for, and opposing, summary judgment may each carry their burden of persuasion and/or production depends on” the issues addressed in the given summary judgment motion. (Id. at p. 851.) For example, we explained that how the parties meet their respective burdens can depend on “which [party] would bear what burden of proof at trial.” (Ibid.) Because Aguilar does not discuss how the parties might meet their respective burdens with regard to a statute of limitations defense, it does not speak to the question here.
Kelso also relies on
Here, however, discovery of the adverse promotion decision is part of the accrual rule. (See Cada v. Baxter Healthcare Corp. (7th Cir. 1990) 920 F.2d 446, 450 [elucidating the distinction “between the accrual of the plaintiff‘s claim and the tolling of the statute of limitations“].) The date of accrual “is not the date on which the wrong that injures the plaintiff occurs, but the date — often the same, but sometimes later — on which the plaintiff discovers that he has been injured. . . . The discovery rule is implicit in the holding of Ricks that the statute of limitations began to run ‘at the time the tenure decision was made and communicated to Ricks,’ 449 U.S. at 258, 101 S.Ct. at 504 (emphasis added).” (Ibid.) As case law indicates (ante, at pp. 12-20), a refusal to promote has not “occurred” for purposes of the statute of limitations until the aggrieved employee has had actual or constructive notice.
In sum, when a defendant asserts a statute of limitations defense against a FEHA failure to promote claim, the burden is on the defendant to prove when the plaintiff knew or should have known of the adverse promotion decision. The Court of Appeal in this case concluded that the statute of limitations began to run when Tri-Modal offered the promotion to Gonzalez and she accepted it. It did not discuss when Pollock knew or should have known that she was denied the promotion, nor did it discuss whether Kelso, in asserting his statute of limitations defense, established any facts concerning Pollock‘s actual or constructive knowledge. Accordingly, we reverse and remand for further proceedings consistent with our opinion.
III.
We now turn to costs on appeal.
Separately, the Legislature spoke directly to the subject of costs and fees in the FEHA itself.
The question is whether costs on appeal in a FEHA action are governed by
As an initial matter,
Kelso argues that
Although the text of
When the Legislature in 2018 amended
Kelso contends that costs on appeal are likely lower on average than costs at the trial level. Even if so, such costs “can be substantial, and the possibility of their assessment could significantly chill the vindication of employees’ civil rights.” (Williams, supra, 61 Cal.4th at p. 114.) In Williams, we held that the award of ordinary trial court costs in FEHA litigation is governed by
Kelso says Williams is distinguishable because
Finally, Kelso argues that construing
In sum, we hold that
Upon such a finding, an appellate court has discretion to award the full amount of costs and fees, a reduced amount, or no amount at all. Because the Court of Appeal made no finding as to whether Pollock‘s claims were objectively groundless, we vacate its award of costs to defendants.
CONCLUSION
We reverse the Court of Appeal‘s judgment, vacate its award of costs on appeal, and remand the matter to that court so that it may remand the case to the superior court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
LIU, J.
We Concur:
CANTIL-SAKAUYE, C. J.
CORRIGAN, J.
CUÉLLAR, J.
KRUGER, J.
GROBAN, J.
JENKINS, J.