United States Eighth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant-employer on a pregnancy-based employment discrimination claim is affirmed where plaintiff-employee failed to establish a causal link between certain statements by management and a decision to terminate, and failed to show that defendant's legitimate non-discriminatory reason for termination was pretextual.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/24/2006
• Published 03/24/2006

Judges

• WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, LAY, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marie L. Gockel, argued, Kansas City, MO (Lynne Jaben Bratcher, Kansas City, MO, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alan L. Rupe, argued, Wichita, KS (Douglas Mackay, Wichita, KS, on the brief), for appellee.