Legal Opinion
Lana E. Garner, Cross-Appellant v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 8, 1987No. 85-7689PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Daniel Holcombe THOMAS, Senior District Judge:
This action arose under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. Section 2000e, et. seq. The plaintiff, Lana E. Garner (Garner), originally brought this action claiming that her former employer, the defendant, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart), violated the sex discrimination provisions of Title VII: (1) by demoting her after a maternity leave, and (2) by intentionally making her working conditions so intolerable that she was forced to resign. The District Court on September 26, 1985, ruled that the plaintiff had been sexually…
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