Richard GREEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ARMSTRONG RUBBER COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee

In this race discrimination case filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 2000e et seq. the trial court rendered judgment in favor of the appellee holding that the appellant had failed to establish a prima facie case of discrimination. We affirm.

Appellant, a black man, bases his discrimination claim on his being discharged following a fight between him and another employee. On August 5,1977 appellant and a fellow employee, a white man, became involved in an altercation that resulted in the appellant slashing the other employee with a knife-like work tool. Although the genesis of the fight was…