Legal Opinion
Isiah Thomas v. Marvin T. Runyon, Jr., Postmaster General, U.S. Postal Service
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 18, 1997No. 96-1862PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SACHS, District Judge.
Isiah Thomas filed this action against his former employer, the United States Postal Service, alleging race discrimination in violation of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. The district court 1 granted summary judgment for the Postal Service and Thomas appeals. Because Thomas failed to show that the defendant’s legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons for its adverse employment actions against him were pretextual, we affirm.
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Isiah Thomas, an African-American male, was employed by the Postal Service as a Supervisor in the Postal Service’s Maintenance Department at the St.…
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