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023560P.pdf   09/23/2003  Gene Trammel  v.  Simmons First Bank
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  02-3560
   Eastern District of Arkansas   
Civil case - civil rights. Social contact between district court judge's law clerk and one of the defendant's officers did not require the district court judge to recuse himself where the clerk had no contact with the case; plaintiff failed to show the bank's stated reason for his discharge was a pretext for age discrimination; plaintiff failed to offer sufficient evidence to support his claim that defendant retaliated against him for filing an EEOC complaint.