Legal Opinion
Edith E. McNAIRN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, Secretary of Health & Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 6, 1991No. 89-1792PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Senior Circuit Judge:
Introduction
Edith McNairn was denied a promotion and subsequently terminated from her employment with the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”). She filed an action alleging that HHS violated Title VII of The Civil Rights Act of 1964. 1 The complaint comprises counts of refusal to promote based on discriminatory treatment and disparate impact, discriminatory termination and retaliatory termination. The magistrate judge found that there was no discriminatory motive involved in the HHS’s employment decisions, and the United States District…
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