Yupei Wang v. Walmart Store, No. 10-3080 (8th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseCourt Description: Civil case - employment discrimination. Dismissal affirmed without comment.
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United States Court of Appeals FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT ___________ No. 10-3080 ___________ Yupei (Claire) Wang, Appellant, v. Walmart Stores, Inc., Appellee. * * * Appeal from the United States * District Court for the * Western District of Arkansas. * * [UNPUBLISHED] * * ___________ Submitted: June 21, 2011 Filed: June 24, 2011 ___________ Before WOLLMAN, BOWMAN, and SMITH, Circuit Judges. ___________ PER CURIAM. Yupei Wang appeals an order of the District Court1 dismissing her employmentdiscrimination action. After careful de novo review, see Strand v. Diversified Collection Serv., Inc., 380 F.3d 316, 317 (8th Cir. 2004), we affirm. Wang s choiceof-law arguments fail because she did not raise them before the District Court, see St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. Compaq Computer Corp., 539 F.3d 809, 824 (8th Cir. 2008), and we agree with the District Court that the Arkansas Civil Rights Act does 1 The Honorable Robert T. Dawson, United States District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas, adopting the report and recommendations of the Honorable Erin Setser, United States Magistrate Judge for the Western District of Arkansas. not provide a cause of action for perceived disabilities, see Faulkner v. Ark. Children s Hosp., 69 S.W.3d 393, 402 (Ark. 2002). Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. ______________________________ -2-
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