Legal Opinion
Deborah Patterson v. Tenet Healthcare, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 12, 1997No. 96-2587PublishedCited by 178 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Deborah Patterson appeals from the district court’s 2 order dismissing her employment discrimination claims against her former employer, Tenet Healthcare, Inc. (Tenet). We affirm.
I
Patterson became employed in 1989 as a medical technologist at Columbia Regional Hospital, which is owned and operated by Tenet. On March 5, 1993, she received a copy of Tenet’s employee handbook and signed an arbitration clause set forth on the last page of the handbook.
On July 26,1993, and again on January 18, 1994, Patterson filed charges with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission…
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