123301P.pdf   11/18/2013  Tony Sayger  v.  Riceland Foods, Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-3301
                          and No:  12-3395
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Melloy and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Employment Discrimination. In an action alleging plaintiff 
   had been terminated in retaliation for supporting the race discrimination 
   complaints of two African American co-workers, plaintiff presented 
   sufficient evidence of causation for a jury to find he would not have been 
   dismissed had he not served as a witness for the co-workers, and the 
   evidence was sufficient for a jury to find that the employer's stated 
   grounds for plaintiff's termination was a pretext; regarding plaintiff's 
   cross-appeal, plaintiff failed to preserve his Title VII claim on appeal 
   and, even if he had preserved it, the district court did not err in 
   dismissing it as untimely; the district court did not err in denying 
   plaintiff's motion for a new trial on punitive damages as he failed to 
   establish malice or reckless indifference with respect to the employer's 
   knowledge that it was acting in violation of federal law; district court 
   did not abuse its discretion by denying plaintiff's request for 
   reinstatement.