Legal Opinion
Missouri Commission on Human Rights v. City of Sikeston/Sikeston Power Plant/Board of Municipal Utilities
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided April 21, 1989No. 15790PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLANIGAN, Presiding Judge.
On February 2, 1982, Willie J. Sykes, who is black, filed a complaint with the Missouri Commission on Human Rights, (the Commission), alleging that the City of Sikeston, by whom he was employed until that date, was guilty of an unlawful employment practice. In essence his complaint was that the City, through its agents, racially discriminated against him with respect to terms and conditions of his employment at the City’s power plant.
Section 296.020 RSMo 1978, 1 on which the complaint was based, read, in pertinent part:
“1. It shall be an unlawful employment practice:…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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3Cited by17 opinions
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