Legal Opinion
Gwendolyn WARD, Appellant, v. the PROCTER & GAMBLE PAPER PRODUCTS COMPANY, Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 10, 1997No. 96-1655PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
Gwendolyn Ward appeals the district court’s 2 grant of summary judgment to her former employer, the Procter & Gamble Paper Products Company (the Plant), in Ward’s Title VII employment discrimination suit. Because Ward failed to present evidence that the Plant’s legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons for discharging her are pretextual, we affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment.
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The Plant employed Ward, an African-American woman, from June 5, 1989, until she was dismissed on September 29, 1993. Ward worked on a manufacturing line as a technician. The Plant…
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