F I L E D
United States Court of Appeals
Tenth Circuit
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
JAN 7 1998
FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
PATRICK FISHER
Clerk
PETER LEUNG,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v. No. 97-3016
(D.C. No. 96-CV-2037)
LABONE, INC., (D. Kan.)
Defendant-Appellee.
ORDER AND JUDGMENT *
Before ANDERSON, McKAY, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.
After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel has determined
unanimously to grant the parties’ request for a decision on the briefs without oral
argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(f); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The case is therefore
ordered submitted without oral argument.
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This order and judgment is not binding precedent, except under the
doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. The court
generally disfavors the citation of orders and judgments; nevertheless, an order
and judgment may be cited under the terms and conditions of 10th Cir. R. 36.3.
Plaintiff Peter Leung appeals from the district court’s grant of summary
judgment to his employer, defendant LabOne, Inc., on his claims that defendant
discriminated against him on account of his race and his age, in violation of 42
U.S.C. § 1981 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C.
§§ 621-634. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and affirm.
Plaintiff was born in Hong Kong in 1943 and is of Chinese descent. He has
been in the United States since 1965, and has been a naturalized citizen since
1989. He was forty-nine years old at the beginning of the events complained of
here. He applied for two promotions with defendant, but other candidates were
selected. He desired a third promotion, but did not apply for this position because
he believed defendant had discriminated against him in their selection of other
people for the other two jobs, and that applying for the third promotion would be
futile.
Plaintiff filed suit, alleging race and age discrimination. In its motion for
summary judgment, defendant conceded that plaintiff had made out a prima facie
case of discrimination with respect to the two jobs he had actually applied for,
and the district court determined that plaintiff had failed to make out a prima
facie case with respect to the position he had not applied for. Defendant claimed
that it chose other candidates to fill the first two positions because they were
better qualified than plaintiff, and that it did not choose plaintiff for the third
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position because he did not apply for that job. The district court found that
plaintiff had failed to show that defendant’s offered reasons for choosing other
candidates for promotion were pretextual, and concluded that he had failed to
demonstrate the existence of any genuine factual issue of either race or age
discrimination to be tried. The court therefore granted summary judgment to
defendant.
“We review the grant of summary judgment de novo, applying the same
standard as the district court.” Taken v. Oklahoma Corp. Comm’n, 125 F.3d
1366, 1368 (10th Cir. 1997). “[S]ummary judgment ‘shall be rendered forthwith
if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file,
together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any
material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of
law.’” Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 247 (1986) (quoting
Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c)). “We review the record in the light most favorable to the
party opposing summary judgment.” Taken, 125 F.3d at 1368.
On appeal, plaintiff contends the district court erred: (1) in allowing
defendant to amend its affidavits without giving plaintiff an opportunity to
respond before ruling on the summary judgment motion; (2) in deciding that he
had failed to establish a prima facie case of race or age discrimination with
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respect to the position he had not applied for; and (3) in concluding that he had
failed to demonstrate the existence of a triable factual issue as to pretext.
Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) gives district courts discretion to allow amendment or
supplementation of affidavits, and we would review the district court’s decision
to allow amendment for abuse of discretion. Plaintiff gives no indication that he
raised this issue in the district court, however, and the issue is therefore waived
on appeal. See Walker v. Mather (In re Walker), 959 F.2d 894, 896 (10th Cir.
1992) (holding issue not raised in district court is waived on appeal);
10th Cir. R. 28.2(b) (stating appellant must show where in the record each issue
was raised and ruled upon by the district court).
Otherwise, we have carefully reviewed the record and the parties’ briefs on
appeal. We find no error, and affirm for substantially the same reasons as those
set forth in the district court’s Memorandum and Order dated December 23, 1996.
The judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas
is AFFIRMED.
Entered for the Court
Stephen H. Anderson
Circuit Judge
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