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SMITH v. PAN AM WORLD AIRWAYS

No. 81-1548.

706 F.2d 771 (1983)

Sandra Richardson SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PAN AM WORLD AIRWAYS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided May 19, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl R. Edwards, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.

Donald B. Miller, Detroit, Mich., for defendant-appellee.

Before MARTIN and CONTIE, Circuit Judges, and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM.

During an October 9, 1977 Pan American World Airways flight from London to Chicago, Guy Richard, a white male flight purser, allegedly referred to Sandra R. Smith, a black flight attendant, in a racially derogatory manner and attempted to strike her. That allegation forms the gravamen of Smith's complaint against Pan Am for racial discrimination in employment in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981. The district court granted Pan Am's motion for summary...

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