Legal Opinion
Lindsay v. Yates
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 15, 2007No. 06-4430PublishedCited by 177 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
R. GUY COLE, JR., Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs-Appellants Douglas and Tina Lindsay brought suit against Defendants-Appellees JoAnn Yates, the Estate of Gene Yates, and Brent Yates (collectively, the “Yateses”), as well as Sluss Realty Company and realtor Carol Eicher, on the grounds that Defendants terminated a real-estate sales contract with the Lind-says one day after learning that the Lind-says are black. The district court dismissed the Lindsays’ complaint, concluding that they failed to plead facts establishing each element of a prima facie case as set forth in McDonnell Douglas Corp.…
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