Legal Opinion
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Kohler Company, D/B/A Sterling Plumbing Group, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 12, 2003No. 02-2447PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) brought this action against Kohler Company based upon former employee John Reynolds’s claim that race discrimination motivated Kohler to *769fire him after a company-policy violation investigation.1 The EEOC filed claims for discrimination and retaliation on Reynolds’s behalf. The jury found that Kohler did not discriminate against Reynolds, but that Kohler did retaliate against him for bringing the claim. The District Court2 granted Kohler’s motion for judgment as a matter of law finding that Kohler’s reasons for firing…
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