Kenneth Clack v. Rock-Tenn Company, Mill Divisi
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Karen Nelson Moore, Circuit Judge, filed a dissenting opinion.
1Per curiam
The plaintiff, Kenneth Clack, appeals from the order granting summary judgment to the defendants, Rock-Tenn Company and Rock-Tenn’s Mill Division, that was entered on Clack’s claims that his termination constituted racial discrimination and retaliation in -violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq. The magistrate judge, sitting as the district court by consent, held that Clack had established a prima facie case of race discrimination but had failed to show that the defendants’ purported reason for the termination, Clack’s insubordination, was a pretext…
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