093831P.pdf   09/22/2011  Cornelius Bennett  v.  Nucor Corporation
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-3831
                          and No:  09-3834
                          and No:  10-1332
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Jonesboro   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Gruender and Shepherd,
   Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Employment Discrimination. District court did not abuse its
   discretion by admitting several types of evidence describing discrimination
   against nonparties at the plant where plaintiffs worked; district court did
   not err in overruling defendant's objections to certain statements made by
   plaintiff's counsel during closing argument; as a result of defendant's
   failure to renew its motion for judgment as a matter of law on the claim
   for punitive damages after entry of judgment, the court is without power
   to disturb the judgment on the jury's punitive damage award; district court
   did not err in denying plaintiff's motion to certify a broader class of all
   African Americans employed at the plant since 1999 for lack of
   commonality, as the extensive class certification record demonstrated that
   defendant's departments varied widely in their employment practices,
   working environments and functions; district court did not err in granting
   defendant summary judgment on plaintiffs' individual disparate impact
   claims, failure-to-train disparate treatment claims and failure-to-promote
   disparate treatment claims as the plaintiffs either failed to make a
   submissible case on the claims or failed to rebut defendant's legitimate
   proffered reason for a promotion decision.