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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2000e Job Discrimination (Employment)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

NORTHERN DIVISION 

CARLOW. OBREGON 

and SAMUEL WATERS 

v. No. 3:17-cv-156-DPM 

CAPITAL QUARRIES COMPANY, INC., 

owned by or held by Farmer Holding 

Company, Inc. 

ORDER 

PLAINTIFFS 

DEFENDANT 

The Court denies Obregon' s and Waters's timely motion, NQ 6 7, 

to alter or amend the Judgment. The Court has reconsidered; but they 

haven't offered newly discovered evidence; and the Court doesn't see 

a manifest error of law. Innovative Home Health Care, Inc. v. P. T.-0. T. 

Associates of the Black Hills, 141 F.3d 1284, 1286 (8th Cir. 1998). The Court 

didn't determine Doran's or anyone else's credibility. Capital Quarries' 

independent investigation ensured that management wasn't a cat's 

paw for Doran, whatever his true motivations may have been. Lacks v. 

Ferguson Reorganized School District R-2, 147 F.3d 718, 725 (8th Cir. 1998). 

Obregon and Waters say other employees weren't fired after failing to 

properly tag out equipment. Again, even if true, this fact doesn't satisfy 

the rigorous standard for comparators. Johnson v. Securitas Security 

Services USA, Inc., 769 F.3d 605,613 (8th Cir. 2014). Obregon and Waters 

haven't specifically identified anyone who had multiple and 

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substantially similar disciplinary or safety incidents without being 

fired. The ostracism and similar actions, considered separately, don't 

rise to the level of adverse employment actions. Jackman v. Fifth Judicial 

District Department of Correctional Services, 728 F.3d 800, 804-5 

(8th Cir. 2013). And considered together, along with the mean-spirited 

remarks, they do not top the high bar precedent imposes for a jury issue 

on a hostile work environment. Moses v. Dassault Falcon Jet-Wilmington 

Corp., 894 F.3d 911, 922-23 (8th Cir. 2018). 

So Ordered. 

D.P. Marshall Jr. 

United States District Judge 

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