Inez Thomas v. The Kroger Company

KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

Inez Thomas appeals a district court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of the Kroger Company. Thomas was discharged from her job as a cashier with Kroger on February 28,1989. Nearly two years later, on February 26, 1991, Thomas brought suit against Kroger alleging that the company had terminated her employment on the basis of race, thereby breaching the collective bargaining agreement with Thomas’s union and violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2. Thomas later amended the complaint to include a claim for damages under 42 U.S.C.…