United States Tenth Circuit
Equal Opportunity Employment Comm'n v. BCI Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Los Angeles, 04-2220
Summary judgment for defendant-employer on a claim of race discrimination arising from the termination of a black employee is reversed where genuine issues of material fact existed as to whether defendant's proffered explanation for the termination was a pretext for racial discrimination.
Appellate Information
- Decided 06/08/2006
- Published 06/08/2006
Judges
- McCONNELL, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, McKAY, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Tenth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Susan R. Oxford (Eric S. Dreiband, General Counsel, Carolyn L. Wheeler, Acting Associate General Counsel, Vincent J. Blackwood, Acting Associate General Counsel, and Lorraine C. Davis, Assistant General Counsel, with her on the briefs), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellant.
- For Appellees:
- E. Todd Presnell (Kara E. Shea with him on the brief), Miller & Martin PLLC, Nashville, Tennessee, for Defendants-Appellees.