Legal Opinion
Trotter v. Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 1996No. 95-6465PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal, plaintiffs-appellants Rhonda Coleman and Sonia Floyd (“plaintiffs”) contest the district court’s order granting defendant-appellee Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (“the Board”) judgment as a matter of law on the plaintiffs’ Title VII race discrimination claims. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.
I. STATEMENT OF THE CASE
A. Background Facts
Coleman and Floyd, both of whom are African-American, were unit secretaries employed at the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham (“the hospital”). Coleman was hired in early June of 1992…
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