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101037P.pdf 05/02/2011 Eddy Clark v. Matthews International Corp.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 10-1037
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Colloton,
Circuit Judge]
Civil case - Employment discrimination. For the court's earlier opinion
in the case see Clark v. Matthews Int'l Corp. 628 F.3d 462 (8th Cir. 2010).
Matthews's petition for panel rehearing is granted, and that portion of the
court's opinion which disposed of plaintiff's Missouri Human Rights Act
is vacated, and the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of
defendant on plaintiff's MHRA claim is reversed and remanded for further
proceedings. Judge Colloton, dissenting.
101037P.pdf 12/27/2010 Eddy Clark v. Matthews International Corp.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 10-1037
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Riley, Melloy and Colloton,
Circuit Judges]
Civil case - employment discrimination. Plaintiff failed to establish that
defendant's RIF disparately impacted employees forty and over as
analysis of the proper pool of employees showed the impact was only in
the 4-5% range and such an impact is not sufficiently substantial to create
an inference that plaintiff and the other terminated employees were
terminated because of their age; plaintiff's disparate treatment claim
failed as he did not establish that his age was the "but-for"cause of the
employment decisions; the court cannot determine how Missouri courts
would apply the fairly recent "contributing factor" standard to plaintiff's
Missouri Human Rights Act, and that claim should be dismissed without
prejudice.