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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
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United Statfi Courr of Appeals 

Tenth Cf:::cuit 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MAY 2 0 1991 

llOBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

NORMA JIMENEZ, ) 

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Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

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LANCASTER COLONY CORPORATION, ) 

INDIANA GLASS COMPANY, ) 

SANDY TRIPP, JERRY TRIPP, ) 

RONALD KRATZ, and ROGER ) 

JEWETT, ) 

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Defendants-Appellees. ) 

No. 90-1133 

(D.C. No. 86-M-2482) 

(D. Colo.) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before TACBA and EBEL, Circuit Judges, and VAN BEBBER, District 

Judge.** 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The case is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

** Honorable G. Thomas van Bebber, District Judge, United States 

District Court for the District of Kansas, sitting by designation. 

Appellate Case: 90-1133 Document: 010110106541 Date Filed: 05/20/1991 Page: 1 
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Plaintiff-appellant Norma Jimenez appeals the district 

court's dismissal on the pleadings of her claim seeking damages 

and injunctive relief under 42 u.s.c. S 1981. The section 1981 

claim is predicated on defendants-appellees' allegedly 

discriminatory discharge of Jimenez. The district court held 

section 1981 does not apply to terminations from employment. The 

accuracy of this legal conclusion is the sole issue on appeal. 

As our very recent decisions on this subject indicate, we 

agree with the district court. See Carter Y..:.. Sedgwick County, 

Kansas, 928 F.2d 1501 (10th Cir. 1991); Trujillo Y..:.. Grand Junction 

Regional Center, 928 F.2d 973 (10th Cir. 1991). Jimenez presents 

no facts to significantly distinguish the instant case from those 

in which we have held section 1981 unavailable in cases of 

allegedly discriminatory employment termination. We therefore 

AFFIRM. 

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ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

Deanell Reece Tacha 

Circuit Judge 

Appellate Case: 90-1133 Document: 010110106541 Date Filed: 05/20/1991 Page: 2