BLACKMAN v. VISITING NURSES ASS'N

No. 96-CV-475.

694 A.2d 865 (1997)

Waveney BLACKMAN, Appellant, v. VISITING NURSES ASSOCIATION, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 1, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Rose, with whom David M. Wachtel, was on the brief, for appellant.

Henry Morris, Jr., with whom Samuel K. Charnoff, was on the brief, Washington, D.C., for appellee.

Before FARRELL, KING, and RUIZ, Associate Judges.


KING, Associate Judge.

In this appeal from the grant of summary judgment against an employee who claimed she was discharged on account of her nationality and race, we hold that the official who made the decision to terminate the employee for violating company policy is not tainted with the alleged discriminatory animus of the employee's immediate supervisor where the immediate supervisor was not involved in the decision to terminate but only provided the decisionmaker...

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