Legal Opinion
Hairston v. AK Steel Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 10, 2006No. 04-4549UnpublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Ronald Hairston appeals the district court’s summary-judgment ruling in favor of AK Steel Corporation in this employment-discrimination case. Because Hairston has not supported his race-discrimination claim with evidence from which a reasonable jury could conclude that AK Steel’s nondiseriminatory reasons for firing him were pretextual, we affirm.
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In 1979, Hairston, an African-American, began working as a salaried maintenance-shift manager for Empire Detroit Steel in its Cold Mill plant in Mansfield, Ohio. In September 1999, AK Steel acquired Armco (the successor to…
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