Legal Opinion
William Ray JOHNSON, Appellant, v. YELLOW FREIGHT SYSTEM, INC., Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 28, 1984No. 83-1695PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Appellant William Ray Johnson brought this action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e to 2000e-17, and under 42 U.S.C. § 1981. Johnson, who is black, claimed that his discharge from employment with defendant Yellow Freight Systems, Inc., resulted from racial discrimination. The district court denied Johnson relief on the Title VII claim, and the jury returned a verdict in Yellow Freight’s favor on the § 1981 claim. We affirm.
Yellow Freight operates a line-haul freight operation of nationwide scope. A relay system of transporting freight is…
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