United States Court of Appeals
                          FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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                                 No. 08-2890
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Olen E. Gibson,                          *
                                         *
            Appellant,                   *
                                         *
      v.                                 *
                                         *
Kansas City Power & Light Company,       *
                                         *
            Appellee,                    *
                                         *   Appeal from the United States
Access Program,                          *   District Court for the
                                         *   Western District of Missouri.
            Defendant,                   *
                                         *       [UNPUBLISHED]
Great Plains Energy,                     *
                                         *
            Defendant,                   *
                                         *
Terry Bassham; David Bodde; Jennifer     *
Butler; Lora Cheatum; Michael J.         *
Chesser; William Downey; Mark            *
English; Mark Ernst; Randall Ferguson,   *
Jr.; William Hall; Luis Jimenez; James   *
Mitchell; William Nelson; Don            *
Prophete; Gerald Reynolds; William       *
Riggins; Larry Rute; Linda Talbott;      *
Robert West; Lori Wright,                *
                                         *
            Defendants.                  *
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                            Submitted: November 12, 2009
                               Filed: November 18, 2009
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Before BYE, BOWMAN, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

      Olen Gibson appeals from the District Court’s1 dismissal of his employment-
discrimination action against his former employer. Upon careful de novo review, see
Yankton Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Dep’t of Health and Human Servs., 

, 639
(8th Cir. 2008) (standard of review), we conclude that the dismissal was proper.
Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
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      1
        The Honorable Dean Whipple, United States District Judge for the Western
District of Missouri.

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