Legal Opinion
Williams v. Ford Motor Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 9, 1999No. Nos. 97-2049, 98-1256PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge.
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A. Procedural Background
This case is one of many employment discrimination cases in multidistrict litigation against Ford Motor Co. The complaint in the case before us here (hereinafter “Williams”), is a state-law employment discrimination class action claiming violations of Ohio Revised Code § 4112.02, which was originally filed by Michael Williams, Flora McMiller, Keith Harris, Almesha Spinkston, and Gerrol Townsend in Common Pleas Court in Lorain County, Ohio, and removed on diversity grounds to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.…
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