Damarious Walker v. RENT-A-CENTER; FRANK GUISER, in his individual and official capacity

The Honorable George C. Steeh, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of*
Michigan, sitting by designation.
NOT RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION
File Name: 08a0711n.06
Filed: November 19, 2008
No. 07-4413
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
DAMARIOUS WALKER,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
RENT-A-CENTER; FRANK GUISER, in his
individual and official capacity,
Defendants-Appellees,
and
JOHN DOE, in his individual and official
capacity,
Defendant.
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ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED
STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO
Before: GIBBONS and COOK, Circuit Judges, and STEEH, District Judge.*
COOK, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff Damarious Walker alleges that Frank Guiser, a Rent-A-
Center employee, made several racist comments to Walker during a telephone conversation about
overdue payments on a lease-purchase agreement. Claiming violations of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and
Ohio Rev. Code § 1345.03, as well as breach of contract, Walker sued Guiser, Rent-A-Center, and
a John Doe supervisor. Guiser and Rent-A-Center successfully moved for summary judgment. With

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No. 07-4413
Walker v. Rent-A-Center, et al.
the benefit of oral argument, and having studied the record and the briefs, we agree with the district
court. Because a separate opinion would only duplicate the efforts, we affirm the district court’s
judgment, which adopted the analysis supporting the magistrate judge’s report and recommendation
and granted summary judgment to Guiser and Rent-A-Center.

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