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Summary: 11-5481-cv Andreos v. Kraft Foods Global, Inc. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION
Summary: 11-5481-cv Andreos v. Kraft Foods Global, Inc. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION ..
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11-5481-cv
Andreos v. Kraft Foods Global, Inc.
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
SUMMARY ORDER
RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1,
2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1.
WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN
ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON
ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL.
1 At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals
2 for the Second Circuit, held at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan
3 United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, in the City of
4 New York, on the 16th day of May, two thousand twelve.
5
6 PRESENT: JOSEPH M. MCLAUGHLIN,
7 RICHARD C. WESLEY,
8 Circuit Judges,
9 J. GARVAN MURTHA,
10 District Judge.*
11 _____________________________________
12
13 ANTONIO ANDREOS,
14
15 Plaintiff-Appellant,
16
17 v. 11-5481-cv
18
19 KRAFT FOODS GLOBAL, INC.,
20
21 Defendant-Appellee.
22 _____________________________________
23
24
25 FOR APPELLANT: ANTONIO ANDREOS, pro se, Edgewater, NJ.
26
*
The Honorable J. Garvan Murtha, of the United States
District Court for the District of Vermont, sitting by
designation.
1
1 FOR APPELLEE: CHRISTOPHER H. MILLS (David J. Treibman,
2 on the brief), Fisher & Phillips LLP,
3 Murray Hill, NJ.
4
5 Appeal from the United States District Court for the
6 Southern District of New York (Crotty, J.).
7
8 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED,
9 AND DECREED that the judgment of the district court be
10 AFFIRMED.
11 Plaintiff-Appellant Antonio Andreos, pro se, appeals
12 from a judgment of the United States District Court for the
13 Southern District of New York (Crotty, J.), granting summary
14 judgment in favor of his former employer, Kraft Foods
15 Global, Inc. (“Kraft”), in his employment discrimination
16 action brought pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
17 of 1964 (“Title VII”), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., and the
18 Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. § 621 et
19 seq. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying
20 facts, the procedural history of the case, and the issues on
21 appeal.1
22 Andreos’s principal contention on appeal is that the
23 district court erred in granting Kraft’s summary judgment
1
We grant Kraft’s motion to strike those portions of
Andreos’s “Reply Appendix” that were not filed in the district
court. See Int’l Bus. Machs. Corp. v. Edelstein,
526 F.2d 37, 45
(2d Cir. 1975); Fed. R. App. P. 10(a).
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1 motion on his race discrimination claim. We review orders
2 granting summary judgment de novo. Miller v. Wolpoff &
3 Abramson, L.L.P.,
321 F.3d 292, 300 (2d Cir. 2003). Summary
4 judgment is appropriate upon a showing “that there is no
5 genuine dispute as to any material fact and that the movant
6 is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.” Fed. R. Civ.
7 P. 56(a). “In determining whether there are genuine issues
8 of material fact, we are required to resolve all ambiguities
9 and draw all permissible factual inferences in favor of the
10 party against whom summary judgment is sought.” Terry v.
11 Ashcroft,
336 F.3d 128, 137 (2d Cir. 2003) (internal
12 quotation marks omitted).
13 Having conducted an independent review of the record in
14 light of these principles, we affirm the grant of Kraft’s
15 summary judgment motion for substantially the same reasons
16 stated by the district court in its Order. Although we find
17 Andreos met his initial burden of establishing a prima facie
18 case of racial discrimination, the district court properly
19 concluded that he failed to demonstrate that Kraft’s
20 proffered nondiscriminatory reason for his termination was
21 pretextual. See McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green,
411 U.S.
22 792, 802-04 (1973); Ruiz v. Cnty. of Rockland,
609 F.3d 486,
23 492 (2d Cir. 2010).
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1 We have considered all of Appellant’s remaining
2 arguments and find them to be without merit. For the
3 foregoing reasons, the judgment of the district court is
4 hereby AFFIRMED.
5
6 FOR THE COURT:
7 Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk
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