Legal Opinion
Aaron Rooney v. Rock-Tenn Converting Company
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 9, 2018No. 16-3631PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GERRARD, District Judge.
Aaron C. Rooney was fired and sued his former employer, alleging that he was discriminated against for being male and non-Jewish. But his former employer, Rock-Tenn Services, Inc., 2 contends that Rooney was fired for poor performance. The district court 3 granted summary judgment for Rock-Tenn. We affirm.
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Rooney was hired in March 2010 by Dean Metter, Rock-Tenn’s vice-president of business development and key retailers, as an account executive in Rock-Tenn’s Bentonville, Arkansas office. Rock-Tenn was in the business of making packaging and displays for retail…
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