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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 

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The Honorable Henry E. Autrey, United States District Judge for the Eastern

District of Missouri.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 04-1737

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Phyllis E. Toston, *

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Appellant, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the

* Eastern District of Missouri.

Missouri Division of Employment *

Security, * [UNPUBLISHED]

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Appellee. *

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Submitted: February 4, 2005

Filed: February 7, 2005

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Before BYE, RILEY, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Phyllis Toston appeals the district court’s1

 adverse grant of summary judgment

in this Title VII action Toston brought against her former employer, the Missouri

Division of Employment Security. Following careful review, we agree with the

district court that Toston presented nothing in support of her bare allegation that her

employer’s legitimate reason for terminating her--poor performance--was a pretext

for race discrimination, see Riggs v. Kansas City Mo. Pub. Sch. Dist., 385 F.3d 1164,

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1166 (8th Cir. 2004), or retaliation, see Griffith v. City of Des Moines, 387 F.3d 733,

738 (8th Cir. 2004). In addition, to the extent she pleaded a hostile-workenvironment claim, Toston failed to show harassment pervasive or severe enough to

affect a term, condition, or privilege of her employment. See id. at 739. Accordingly,

we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. 

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