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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

________________________ No. 15

- 14997 Non

- Argument Calendar

________________________ D.C. Docket No. 4:14

- cv - 00564

- RH

- CAS JAMES CRAIG CLAMPETT, Plaintiff

- Appellant,

versus
AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION, Defendant

- Appellee.

________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida

________________________ ( October 18, 2016 ) Before HULL , MARCUS and WILLIAM PRYOR , Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:

Case: 15-14997 Date Filed: 10/18/2016 Page: 1 of 42 James Clampett appeals the summary judgmen t in favor of his former employer, the Agency for Health Care Administration , and against h is complaint

o f retaliation for engaging in a protected activity, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § § 1983, 2000e

- 3 , and t he Florida Civil Rights Act, Fla. Stat. § 760.10

. Clampett complained t hat his supervisor , Mercedes Bosque, forced him to resign in retaliation for report ing that she was unfairly critical of hi s work

. The district court ruled that Clampett failed to establis h a prima facie case of retaliation and, in the a lternative, that the A gency provided a legitimate , nonretaliatory reason for Clampett’ s termination . We affirm. We review a summary judgment de novo and view the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party

. Crawford v. City of Fairburn, Ga. , 482 F.3d 1305, 1308 (11th Cir. 2007)

. Summary judgment is appropriate “if the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a). We can affirm on any ground supported by the record. United St ates v. Fort , 638 F.3d 1334, 1337 (11th Cir. 2011)

. Clampett failed to prove that he engaged in a statutorily protected activity

. Clampett never reported that he was a victim of gender discrimination. See Coutu v. Martin Cty. Bd. of Cty. Comm’ rs , 47 F.3d 1068, 1074 (11th Cir. 1995) ( “ Unfair treatment, absent discrimination based on race, sex, or national origin, is not an

Case: 15-14997 Date Filed: 10/18/2016 Page: 2 of 43 unlawful employment practice under Title VII. ” )

. Karen Chang testified that Clampett did not mention gender when c omplain ing about being “written up too much” an d that Clampett never s t a te d that other employees were being treated more favorably than him. And Clampett acknowledged that he never told Chang that he thought that he was being tre ated differently because he was a man. Even if Clampett had engaged in a statutorily protected activity, he failed to prove that the legitimate reason given for his termination w as a pr etext for retaliation

. The Agency hired Clampett for a one

- year probationary period to audit its providers’ Me dicaid c ost reports. Bosque testified that she terminat ed Clampett because he “was not improving” and required constant supervision. And the Agency supplemented Bosque’s testimony with copies of emails documenting Clampett’s repetiti ous mistakes and insolence to supervisors, his corrected audit
papers , and hi s six

- month written evaluation in which he scored low for inter

departmental communication s . Clampett fails to “ meet the reason proffered [for his dis charge ] head on and rebut it. ” Crawford , 482 F.3d at 1308. Clampett argues that Bosque attempted to “dig up dirt” on him, but Bosque’s decision to inquire if another government agency had problems with Clampett does not establish that the reason proffered by the Agency lacks any basis in fact o r was not the actual motivation for his termination

. Clampett failed to provide any evidence to establish that th e Agency terminated him for a reason other than his poor job performance

.

Case: 15-14997 Date Filed: 10/18/2016 Page: 3 of 44 We AFFIRM the summary judgment in favor of the Agency. Case: 15-14997 Date Filed: 10/18/2016 Page: 4 of 4