Eleventh Circuit· 2/7/2012

Walden v. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Citations

669 F.3d 1277
2012 WL 371871
2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 2389
95 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 44,410
114 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 454

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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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Judges: Tjoflat, Wilson, Seymour

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