152427P.pdf   11/14/2016  Tina Grant  v.  City of Blytheville, Arkansas
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-2427
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Jonesboro   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Melloy and Colloton, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Employment discrimination. The district court did not abuse 
   its discretion by setting aside a default judgment against the City as its 
   delay in filing an answer was excusable and there was no evidence of bad 
   faith or intentional delay on the City's part; plaintiff could identify no 
   similarly situated employee outside of plaintiff's protected class who was 
   treated more favorably by the City, and the inference-of-discrimination 
   element of plaintiff's prima facie case has not been established; nor was 
   there any showing that the City failed to follow any applicable policy in 
   making the decision to fire plaintiff and no inference of discrimination 
   was established on this basis; the City consistently cited plaintiff's 
   insubordination as the reason for its decision to fire him and thus there 
   is no record-based shifting-reasons basis for an inference of 
   discrimination; as there was no prima facie case of age or race 
   discrimination, the City's summary judgment is affirmed.