Legal Opinion
Myrtle Thomas v. Eastman Kodak Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 15, 1999No. 98-2231PublishedCited by 258 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
In 1993, Myrtle Thomas, the only black Customer Service Representative in Eastman Kodak's Wellesley, Massachusetts office, was laid off. Thomas responded with a race discrimination suit against Kodak under Title VII, 42 U.S.C. §~ 2000e to e-17, arguing that Kodak's layoff decision was discriminatory because it resulted from a ranking process that relied on racially biased performance appraisals prepared in 1990, 1991, and 1992. Kodak made two arguments in its motion for summary judgment: first, that Thomas's claim was time-barred because the performance appraisals were…
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