Portia Surtain v. Hamlin Terrace Foundation
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
Portia Surtain appeals the District Court’s order denying her motion for a default judgment and sua sponte dismissing with prejudice her second amended complaint. Surtain’s complaint contains essentially three claims. First, she alleges that her former employer, Hamlin Terrace Foundation, discriminated against her on the basis of race (she is African-American) by handling her request for medical leave differently than it did the requests of white employees, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.; the Civil Rights Act of 1991…
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