Opinion ID: 462748
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Heading: The Standard of Review in the Appellate Courts

Text: 15 Our role as a court of appeals is to review the district court's determination of the factual question of unlawful discrimination under Fed.R.Civ.P. 52(a) and decide whether its finding is clearly erroneous. Pullman-Standard v. Swint, 456 U.S. 273, 102 S.Ct. 1781, 72 L.Ed.2d 66 (1982). The Supreme Court recently restated the principles underlying the clearly erroneous standard of review and noted that  [w]here there are two permissible views of the evidence, the factfinder's choice between them cannot be clearly erroneous. Anderson v. City of Bessemer City, N.C., --- U.S. ----, 105 S.Ct. 1504, 1512, 84 L.Ed.2d 518 (1985). We must review the district court's finding of unlawful discrimination in the instant case in light of the record viewed in its entirety with proper deference given to the trier of fact. Id. 105 S.Ct. at 1512. 16