Smith v. Lockheed-Martin Corp., No. 09-15428 (11th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseIn this reverse discrimination case under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq., and 42 U.S.C. 1981, plaintiff, a white male, claimed that his former employer discriminated against him on account of his race in terminating his employment. At issue was whether the district court misapplied the summary judgment standard to the evidence presented. Based on the totality of the circumstances, the court held that the record contained sufficient circumstantial evidence from which a jury could infer that the employer displayed a racially discriminatory animus toward plaintiff when it fired him in May 2005. Consequently, plaintiff presented a case sufficient to withstand the employer's motion for summary judgment. Therefore, the judgment of the district court was vacated and remanded for further proceedings.
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