United States Eighth Circuit

In an employment discrimination and retaliation action, district court judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1) the court properly dismissed plaintiff's unlawful retaliation claims, as the issuance of the correction notice took did not harmfully impact plaintiff's employment and there was legitimate reason for issuing the notice that created no inference of a causal connection to any prior protected activity; 2) the court did not err in granting employer's motion for summary judgment on plaintiff's race discrimination claims as the employer established a legitimate, non-discriminatory basis for the decision not to increase plaintiff's wages, and plaintiff failed to show the reason was a pretext; 3) plaintiff's argument that the successor judge did not give proper weight to the prior judge's credibility findings is without merit; and 4) the grant of defendant's motion in limine was not an abuse of the trial judge's discretion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/04/2009
• Published 06/04/2009

Judges

• LOKEN, Chief Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, BEAM, Circuit Judge, and KYLE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kent J. Rubens, Lawrence W. Jackson, West Memphis, AR, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Andrew James Voss, Minneapolis, MN, for appellee.