United States Eighth Circuit

Summary judgment for an employer on plaintiff's claim that his termination as a commercial vehicle driver violated his rights under state law is affirmed where defendant terminated plaintiff for refusing to submit to a test mandated by federal law and termination on that ground is not prohibited by the state law at issue.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2006
• Published 08/18/2006

Judges

• LOKEN, Chief Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, BOWMAN and BYE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Cory D. Olson, Student Attorney, University of Minnesota Law Clinics (Prentiss Cox, Supervising Attorney, University of Minnesota Civil Practice Clinic, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas J. Conley of Minneapolis, MN (Elizabeth A. Papacek, on the brief), for appellee.