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Parties Involved:
Mary Catherine Anderson
Appellant
Arkansas Department of Human Services
Appellee

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

For the Eighth Circuit

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No. 14-2404

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Mary Catherine Anderson

lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellant

v.

Arkansas Department of Human Services, DCFS

lllllllllllllllllllll Defendant - Appellee

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Appeal from United States District Court 

for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock

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 Submitted: February 4, 2015

 Filed: February 25, 2015

[Unpublished]

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Before MURPHY, BOWMAN, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges. 

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PER CURIAM.

Mary Anderson appeals the district court’s adverse grant of summary 1

judgment in her action asserting claims under Title VII and the Family and Medical

The Honorable Brian S. Miller, Chief Judge, United States District Court for

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the Eastern District of Arkansas.

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Leave Act. Upon careful de novo review, we conclude that the district court did not

err in its summary judgment decision. See Torgerson v. City of Rochester, 643 F.3d

1031, 1042, 1046 (8th Cir. 2011) (en banc) (de novo review of grant of summary

judgment; for Title VII discrimination claim, ultimate burden falls on plaintiff to

produce sufficient evidence to create genuine issue ofmaterialfactregarding whether

employer’s proffered nondiscriminatory justifications are mere pretext for intentional

discrimination); see also Pulczinski v. Trinity Structural Towers, Inc., 691 F.3d 996,

1007 (8th Cir. 2012) (Family and Medical Leave Act discrimination claim requires

showing that employee’s exercise of rights under Act played part in employer’s

adverse decision).

Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

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