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Parties Involved:
Apache Corporation
Appellee
A. Wayne Powell
Appellant

Document Text:

' -. FILED 

U•::iired States Court of Appeals .,.._ 4 ~ rircuit 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS h1 y J 1990 

&OBEkT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

A. WAYNE POWELL, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

v. 

APACHE CORPORATION, 

Defendant-Appellee. 

No. 89-1332 

(D.C. Civ. No. 87-B-1987) 

(D. Colorado) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before LOGAN, SEYMOUR, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges. 

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. 

Plaintiff, A. Wayne Powell, sued his former employer, Apache 

Corporation, asserting age discrimination in his demotion from 

full- to part-time employment in January 1986 and in his 

subsequent termination in January 1987, in violation of the Age 

Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. § 621, et seq. After 

* 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. 

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discovery the district court granted Apache Corporation's motion 

for summary judgment, holding that Powell had presented no 

credible evidence to rebut the employer's proof of legitimate 

business reasons for reducing Powell's employment first to parttime and then terminating him a year later. The only issue on 

appeal is whether the evidence was sufficient to create a genuine 

issue of material fact to require submission to the jury. 

We have examined the record carefully and agree with the 

district judge that on the basis of all of the evidence in the 

record presented to us no reasonable jury could find for plaintiff 

Powell. The district court has adequately summarized the facts 

and the law applicable to this determination, and we AFFIRM for 

substantially the reasons stated in the district court's order of 

September 28, 1989. 

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Entered for the Court 

James K. Logan 

Circuit Judge 

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