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Dennis E. JEFFERSON, Appellant, v. MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Appellee.
    No. 00-4072.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
    Submitted Aug. 6, 2001.
    Decided Aug. 15, 2001.
    Before WOLLMAN, Chief Judge, MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, and BYE, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM.

Dennis E. Jefferson appeals the district court’s adverse grant of summary judgment, upon remand, in his Title VII employment-discrimination action. Mr. Jefferson had alleged that Missouri Department of Social Services (MDSS) terminated him from his position at a youth center “because he is a male.”

Having carefully reviewed the record and the parties’ briefs, see Duffy v. Wolle, 123 F.3d 1026, 1033 (8th Cir.1997) (de novo standard of review), cert. denied, 523 U.S. 1137, 118 S.Ct. 1839, 140 L.Ed.2d 1090 (1998), we conclude that the district court properly granted summary judgment to MDSS. Mr. Jefferson failed to show that MDSS’s proffered nondiscriminatory reasons for his termination—his use or threatened use of physical force against several youths and his failure to document these incidents—were pretextual, McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792, 806-07, 93 S.Ct. 1817, 36 L.Ed.2d 668 (1973), and nothing else in Mr. Jefferson’s submissions persuades us that summary judgment was improper.

Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. 
      
      . The Honorable Stephen N. Limbaugh, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.