THOMAS v. EASTMAN KODAK CO.

No. 98-2231.

183 F.3d 38 (1999)

Myrtle THOMAS, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 15, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marisa A. Campagna, with whom the Law Offices of Marisa A. Campagna, Charles P. Wagner, and Silva & Wagner were on brief, for appellant.

Michael A. Fitzhugh, with whom Jon M. Nelson and Fitzhugh & Associates were on brief, for appellee.

Before Lynch, Circuit Judge, Bownes, Senior Circuit Judge, and Lipez, Circuit Judge.


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...

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