TURNER v. KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RY. CO.

No. 09-30558.

675 F.3d 887 (2012)

Thomas D. TURNER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Plaintiff-Appellant, Thomas D. Turner, Intervenors-Appellants, v. Kansas City Southern Railway Company, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 23, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Francis de Boisblanc, Jr. (argued), Donald Francis de Boisblanc, Sr. , de Boisblanc & de Boisblanc, New Orleans, LA, Barbara L. Sloan (argued), U.S. EEOC, OGC-AS, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Rachel Wendt Wisdom (argued), John Mark Fezio , Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, L.L.C., New Orleans, Bobby Stephen Gilliam , Wilkinson, Carmody & Gilliam, Shreveport, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before DENNIS, OWEN and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.


DENNIS, Circuit Judge.

In this employment discrimination case, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Thomas D. Turner (collectively, "the plaintiffs") appeal the district court's grant of the summary judgment motion of defendant Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCSR), dismissing all of the plaintiffs' claims that the decisions to discipline Turner and three other African American employees for putative work-rule violations were based on race...

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