Case ID: f-appx_25/html/0482-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Nicole STILES, Appellant, v. J.C. PENNEY COMPANY, INC., Appellee.
    No. 01-3402.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
    Submitted: Jan. 30, 2002.
    Filed: Feb. 14, 2002.
    Before LOKEN, BEAM, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM.

Nicole Stiles, previously a stylist in a J.C. Penney, Inc. (Penney) salon, appeals the district court’s adverse grant of summary judgment in her employment discrimination and retaliation action against her former employer. Upon de novo review, see Brower v. Runyon, 178 F.3d 1002, 1005 (8th Cir.1999), we conclude the district court properly granted summary judgment for the reasons explained in the court’s thorough, well-reasoned opinion. No genuine issues of material fact exist, and Penney is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.

Stiles’s disqualification from a makeover contest did not constitute an actionable adverse employment action under Title VII. See LaCroix v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 240 F.3d 688, 691-92 (8th Cir.2001). Even assuming that Stiles stated a prima facie case of discrimination and retaliation with regard to her termination, she failed to show that Penney’s reason for firing her (mischarging or failing to charge for salon services) was pretextual. See Hutson v. McDonnell Douglas Corp., 63 F.3d 771, 781 (8th Cir.1995) (stating that the employment discrimination laws do not authorize the review of an employer’s business judgments that do not involve intentional discrimination).

Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. 
      
      . The Honorable Catherine D. Perry, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.