EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION v. BCI COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF LOS ANGELES

No. 04-2220.

450 F.3d 476 (2006)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BCI COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF LOS ANGELES, doing business as Phoenix Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Albuquerque, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

June 7, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan R. Oxford (Eric S. Dreiband, General Counsel, Carolyn L. Wheeler, Acting Associate General Counsel, Vincent J. Blackwood, Acting Associate General Counsel, and Lorraine C. Davis, Assistant General Counsel, with her on the briefs), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellant.

E. Todd Presnell (Kara E. Shea with him on the brief), Miller & Martin PLLC, Nashville, Tennessee, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before LUCERO, McKAY, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.


McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") asks us to reverse the district court's decision granting summary judgment to BCI Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Los Angeles ("BCI") on a claim of race discrimination arising from the termination of a black employee, Stephen Peters. It is undisputed that the human resources official who made the decision to terminate Mr. Peters worked in a different city, had never met Mr. Peters, and did not...

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