Legal Opinion

Parson v. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp.

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided July 10, 1978No. 74-3468PublishedCited by 96 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

Plaintiff, a black employee at the Chal-mette, Louisiana plant of Kaiser Aluminum *1377and Chemical Corporation (Kaiser), appeals from a judgment dismissing his individual and class claims of racial discrimination in employment. Finding errors of both fact and law in the dismissal at the close of the plaintiff’s case, we reverse and remand.

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In July 1966, the named plaintiff, Harris Parson, filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) under section 706(e) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(e), claiming that Kaiser discriminated…

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