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Parties Involved:
American Financial Printing
Appellee
Anthony Ukofia
Appellant

Document Text:

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The Honorable Donovan W. Frank, United States District Judge for the

District of Minnesota.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 05-1818

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Anthony Ukofia, *

*

Appellant, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the

* District of Minnesota.

American Financial Printing, Inc., *

* [UNPUBLISHED]

Appellee. *

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Submitted: April 4, 2006

Filed: April 7, 2006 

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Before MELLOY, FAGG, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Anthony Ukofia appeals the district court’s1

 adverse grant of summary

judgment in his employment-discrimination suit against American Financial Printing,

Inc. (AFPI). After de novo review, we conclude that AFPI offered a legitimate,

nondiscriminatory reason for terminating Ukofia’s employment--poor job

performance--and Ukofia failed to create a trialworthy issue of fact on whether that

reason was a pretext for race discrimination. See Kincaid v. City of Omaha, 378 F.3d

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799, 803-04 (8th Cir. 2004) (de novo standard of review); Wheeler v. Aventis

Pharms., 360 F.3d 853, 858 (8th Cir. 2004) (burden-shifting analysis). 

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

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