Crossley v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.
Decision Date | 22 January 2004 |
Docket Number | No. 03-2320.,03-2320. |
Citation | 355 F.3d 1112 |
Parties | Ellis CROSSLEY, Appellant, v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, Appellee. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Eighth Circuit |
Robert L. Depper, Jr., El Dorado, AR, for appellant.
Robert H. Buckler, Seth T. Ford, Richard Gerakitis, Atlanta, GA, for appellee.
Before MELLOY, BRIGHT, and HANSEN, Circuit Judges.
[PUBLISHED]
Ellis Crossley filed this Title VII action against his employer, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, alleging race discrimination and retaliation for filing prior litigation. After granting summary judgment to Georgia-Pacific on the race discrimination claims, the district court1 granted Georgia-Pacific's renewed summary judgment motion on the retaliation claim. Specifically, the district court concluded that Crossley's attachment of the full transcripts of six depositions to his resistance to summary judgment failed to meet his burden under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(e) to set forth specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial. Crossley appeals the grant of summary judgment only on the retaliation claim. We affirm the district court's judgment.
In resisting a properly supported motion for summary judgment, the plaintiff has an affirmative burden "to designate specific facts creating a triable controversy." Jaurequi v. Carter Mfg. Co., 173 F.3d 1076, 1085 (8th Cir.1999) (internal marks and citation omitted); see Fed. R.Civ.P. 56(e). Once Georgia-Pacific offered a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for the actions complained of, Crossley had the burden to identify specific facts in the record showing that the offered reason was merely pretext and that illegal retaliation was the true motivating factor. See Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Prods., Inc., 530 U.S. 133, 143, 120 S.Ct. 2097, 147 L.Ed.2d 105 (2000) ( ). In his response to Georgia-Pacific's motion, Crossley attached the full transcripts from six depositions and argued that his retaliation claim could be understood only upon a full reading of the depositions. Merely attaching six complete depositions to his response and inviting the district judge to read them in their entirety, without designating which specific facts contained therein created a genuine issue as to pretext or established a reasonable inference of retaliation, did not meet the Rule 56 specificity requirement. See Jaurequi, 173 F.3d at 1085 (...
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