Bridget Jones v. Reliant Energy-Arkla

BYE, Circuit Judge.

Bridget Jones appeals the district court’s 1 adverse grant of summary judgment dismissing her claim of race discrimination against Reliant Energy-ARKLA. We affirm.

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Jones, an African-American, was hired by ARKLA (Reliant Energy’s [Reliant] predecessor) in 1990 as a Customer Service Representative in its Pine Bluff, Arkansas, customer service office. ARKLA was later purchased by Reliant and reorganized. As part of the reorganization, Reliant closed the Pine Bluff office in April 1999. Before the Pine Bluff office closed, Jones applied for and received training as a Training…