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121797P.pdf  06/18/2013  Donna Floyd-Gimon  v.  University of Arkansas
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:   12-1797
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Chief Judge Riley, Author, with Wollman and Gruender, 
   Circuit Judges]
   Civil Case - civil rights. District court's grant of 
   summary judgment in civil rights action alleging violations of due process 
   and equal protection relating to termination for gross misconduct is 
   affirmed. Due process claims failed because employee received all the 
   process she was due; the failure to provide specific examples of altered 
   records does not rise to the level of a due process violation. Claim that 
   employee was deprived of a liberty interest in her reputation without due 
   process failed because employee did not sufficiently, if at all, request a 
   name-clearing hearing. District court did not err in finding employee 
   failed to show direct evidence of gender discrimination and correctly 
   concluded employee did not show the defendants' explanation for terminating 
   her was a pretext for gender discrimination; the comparators were not 
   similarly situated. 
  

122654P.pdf  06/18/2013  Jenny Evance  v.  Trumann Health Services
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:   12-2654
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Jonesboro   
   [PUBLISHED] [Chief Judge Riley, Author, with Bright and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Civil Case - employment discrimination. Appeal is limited 
   to review of summary judgment as that was only order designated in the 
   notice of appeal. District court correctly granted summary judgment on 
   discrimination claims, as there was no direct evidence of discrimination 
   and employer articulated legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for 
   termination and Evance did not show other similarly situated employees were 
   treated more favorably. District court properly granted summary judgment on 
   defamation claims, as there was no evidence to support she was defamed by 
   falsely stating she initiated improper conduct with resident. 
  

123766P.pdf  06/18/2013  William Dimercurio  v.  Deidre Malcom
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:   12-3766
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Civil Case - Rule 41(b) dismissals. After district court 
   rescheduled trial, denied plaintiff's motion for continuance of retrial 
   date, and denied motion for reconsideration, the district court dismissed 
   the case with prejudice for failure to prosecute the appeal on the trial 
   date. District court abused its discretion in denying the continuance and 
   erred in dismissing the case with prejudice. The dismissal with prejudice 
   is reversed and the case remanded.