Kimberly Collins v. CHARLESTON PLACE, LLC, d/b/a Belmond Charleston Place

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 17-1961
KIMBERLY COLLINS,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
CHARLESTON PLACE, LLC, d/b/a Belmond Charleston Place,
Defendant - Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at
Charleston. Patrick Michael Duffy, Senior District Judge. (2:15-cv-04465-PMD)
Submitted: April 23, 2018 Decided: April 25, 2018
Before WILKINSON, MOTZ, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
A. Christopher Potts, HITCHCOCK & POTTS, Charleston, South Carolina, for
Appellant. L. Gray Geddie, Jr., Luci L. Nelson, OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH,
SMOAK & STEWART, PC, Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Kimberly Collins appeals from the district court’s order adopting the
recommendation of the magistrate judge and granting summary judgment to Charleston
Place, LLC (CPL) on the claims in her civil action for discrimination on the basis of race
violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e to
2000e-17, and 42 U.S.C. § 1981. The district court determined that Collins’ claims failed
because she had not presented a genuine issue of material fact as to whether CPL’s
reason for terminating her employment was pretext for unlawful discrimination and
whether CPL had discriminated against her on the basis of race in terminating her
employment. Applying a de novo standard of review and viewing the facts in the record
and the inferences therefrom in the light most favorable to Collins, Lawson v. Union Cty.
Clerk of Court, 828 F.3d 239, 247 (4th Cir. 2016), we find no reversible error in the
district court’s judgment. We have reviewed the parties’ briefs and reject as without
merit Collins’ arguments on appeal that the district court reversibly erred in this case by
ignoring, improperly discounting, or failing to credit evidence of racial tension at CPL,
her evidence of comparator employees, and evidence relative to CPL’s termination
procedures and her termination that she claims provides a motive for and intent behind
the termination of her employment and warranted the denial of CPL’s motion for
summary judgment on her Title VII and § 1981 claims. See Dennis v. Columbia Colleton
Med. Ctr., Inc., 290 F.3d 639, 649 (4th Cir. 2002). Accordingly, we affirm the district
court’s judgment. Collins v. Charleston Place, LLC, No. 2:15-cv-04465-PMD (D.S.C.
July 26, 2017). We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions

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are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid
the decisional process.
AFFIRMED

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