FISHER NUT CO. v. LEWIS EX REL. GARCIA

No. 52049.

320 N.W.2d 731 (1982)

FISHER NUT COMPANY, petitioner, Respondent, v. Donald LEWIS, Director of the City of Saint Paul Department of Human Rights ex rel. Leonard T. GARCIA, et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

June 18, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward P. Starr, City Atty., and Beryl A. Nord, Asst. City Atty., St. Paul, for appellants.

Briggs & Morgan and John B. Van de North, Jr., St. Paul, Winston & Strawn and Gerald C. Peterson, Chicago, Ill., for respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.


SIMONETT, Justice.

This is an appeal by the Director of the City of St. Paul's Department of Human Rights, on behalf of Leonard Garcia, claiming that the district court erred in setting aside a decision by the St. Paul Human Rights Commission in favor of Garcia. We agree with the district court that the Commission's finding of racial discrimination lacks evidentiary support, and therefore we affirm the district court's decision.

Leonard Garcia, of Mexican...

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