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024105P.pdf   11/07/2003  Clarence Putman  v.  Unity Health System
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  02-4105
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   Civil case - Employment law. District court did not err in finding 
   supervisor's comment were not direct evidence of race discrimination, as 
   they were race-neutral comments about job performance; applying the 
   McDonnell Douglas analysis to plaintiff's indirect evidence of race 
   discrimination, plaintiff failed to make a prima facie case that his 
   termination was race-related, and, in any event, he failed to show the 
   stated reason for his discharge - refusal to obey a legitimate order - was a 
   pretext for race discrimination.