United States Eighth Circuit
Tyler v. Univ. of Ark. Bd. of Trustees, 10-1251
In an action claiming that defendant university did not hire plaintiff for the newly created position of Director of Recruitment for Diversity in retaliation for the charge of race discrimination he had filed against the school back in 2004, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff put forward no evidence establishing an inference of retaliatory animus through temporal proximity of the two events; and 2) plaintiff could not demonstrate that the University's explanation for its preference was pretextual.
Appellate Information
- Decided 01/06/2011
- Published 01/07/2011
Judges
- Kermit M. Bye
Court
- United States Eighth Circuit