Legal Opinion
Che v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 26, 2003No. 18-24PublishedCited by 168 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.
A jury found that Chungchi Che (“Che”) was the victim of discrimination by his employer, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (“MBTA”), and one of his supervisors, James Johnson (“Johnson”). Che and the defendants appealed. The parties ask us to review a number of rulings the district court made before, during and after the trial. We affirm, or decline to reach, the district court’s decisions on all these matters except one.
I. BACKGROUND
Che is an American citizen of Asian descent. In 1982, Che was hired by the MBTA to drive buses. As the years passed,…
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