Walden v. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the employer’s offer of a reasonable accommodation triggers the employee’s duty to make a good-faith attempt to accommodate her needs through the employer’s offered accommodation
• holding that Malesko USCA11 Case: 22-13847 Document: 12-1 Date Filed: 11/14/2023 Page: 11 of 13 22-13847 Opinion of the Court 11 “foreclosed inferring a constitutional tort remedy against a private entity” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• concluding that “close temporal proximity of three weeks” between the employee’s “pro- tected activity and [the] . . . adverse employment action” was not enough to establish pretext when the employer supplied a legiti- mate reason for the adverse action
• noting that we can affirm a grant of summary judgment on any ground supported by the record, including grounds on which the district court did not rely
• finding that an employer’s offer of help to the employee in obtaining a new position is a reasonable accommodation as a matter of law
• holding, in a Title VII case, that a temporal proximity of three weeks was not enough to overcome evidence showing that the employee was removed for a legitimate reason

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