Legal Opinion
Blackwell v. Alliant Techsystems, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 16, 2016No. 15-2316PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Catrina Blackwell sued Alliant Techsys-tems Operations LLC (ATK) and several ATK employees for race, gender, and age discrimination after the company fired her for elbowing another employee in the back. The district court 1 granted summary judgment to the defendants, concluding that Blackwell had not demonstrated a prima facie case of discrimination and that ATK had a legitimate nondiscriminatory reason for terminating her. Blackwell now appeals, and we affirm.
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Blackwell, who is African American, was employed as a worker on an assembly line at ATK’s ammunition plant in…
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