Court Opinion

ID: 9473629
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 04:34:26.055745+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:43:37.911291
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ALARCON, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the opinion of the majority insofar as it affirms the judgment of the district court.
The government stipulated that the plaintiff had proved a prima facie case of discrimination. The trial judge did not believe the witnesses offered by the Air Force in support of its defense that there were legitimate reasons to explain the failure to promote Kimbrough. Instead, the district court, after considering all the evidence, was convinced by a preponderance of the evidence that the Air Force discriminated against Kimbrough because of her race and that the reasons offered to justify the failure to promote her were pretextual. Under such circumstances, we must affirm.