Legal Opinion
Tommy Williams v. The Nashville Network and Gaylord Entertainment Company
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 22, 1998No. 96-5309PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED OPINION
2Per curiam
Tommy Williams filed suit against the defendants, The Nashville Network (“TNN”) and its parent company, Gaylord Entertainment Company, pursuant to Title VII, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e to 2000e-17. Williams; a black man, alleged that TNN’s failure to interview him for various positions for which he had applied was the result of racial discrimination and/or retaliation for his filing of a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). He appeals from the judgment entered following a jury verdict in favor of the defendants, contending that the district court abused…
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