Anderson v. the Foster Group

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

REBECCA R. PALLMEYER, District Judge.

From January 2000 until June 2004, Clark Anderson (“Plaintiff’), an African-American, was employed by The Foster Group (“Defendant”), an information technology consulting company owned and operated by African-Americans. On June 25, 2004, Defendant terminated Plaintiff for the stated reason of insubordination after Plaintiff refused to meet with one of his superiors and then hung up the phone on him. In this action, Plaintiff claims that Defendant discriminated against him on the basis of his race and on the basis of what he…