Legal Opinion
Cornelious Howard v. Bp Oil Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 16, 1994No. 93-9209PublishedCited by 287 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORENO, District Judge:
This case requires the Court to analyze the plaintiffs burden of production in a § 1981 employment discrimination action 1 once the defendant moving for summary judgment offers evidence of a legitimate non-discriminatory reason for its decision not to enter into a contract with the plaintiff. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendant, finding that the plaintiff produced insufficient evidence of the falsity of defendant’s articulated race-neutral reasons for awarding contracts to non-black applicants. We disagree and find that the evidence in this…
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