Legal Opinion
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. BCI Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 7, 2006No. 04-2220PublishedCited by 223 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) asks us to reverse the district court’s decision granting summary judgment to BCI Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Los Angeles (“BCI”) on a claim of race discrimination arising from the termination of a black employee, Stephen Peters. It is undisputed that the human resources official who made the decision to terminate Mr. Peters worked in a different city, had never met Mr. Peters, and did not even know that he was black. In making the decision to terminate, however, the human resources official relied exclusively on…
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