Opinion ID: 788401
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Text: 2 McGoffney was employed by FSSA as a food stamps case-worker from January to June 1989, at which time she resigned from her position. Almost a decade later, she again sought employment with the agency, applying on six separate occasions for the position of Public Assistance Caseworker 5 (PAC 5). In response to her first two applications, submitted in July and October 1998, she was neither interviewed nor offered a position. Following both her third and fourth applications, submitted in February and October 1999, she was interviewed but not hired. McGoffney's fifth application, submitted on July 6, 2000, yielded neither an interview nor a job offer. 3 On July 18, 2000, McGoffney filed a complaint with the Indiana Civil Rights Commission, which was forwarded to the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC), alleging racial discrimination in employment occurring on July 7, 2000. The EEOC dismissed McGoffney's charge and sent her a right-to-sue letter on February 28, 2001. 4 On February 16, 2001, McGoffney submitted her sixth and final application for a PAC 5 position. FSSA posted an opening for the position on its job bank in March 2001, and considered McGoffney's application for that opening. She was neither interviewed nor offered a job. 5 On May 1, 2001, McGoffney filed a second EEOC complaint alleging that FSSA refused to hire her for the March 2001 position because of her race and in retaliation for filing the first EEOC complaint. The EEOC dismissed the charge and sent McGoffney a right-to-sue letter on August 6, 2001. 6 McGoffney filed this suit against FSSA in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on May 25, 2001. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of FSSA with respect to all six employment applications, concluding that: (i) the June 1998, October 1998, and February 1999 applications were discrete acts of alleged discrimination and therefore time-barred by the 300-day statutory period; (ii) McGoffney was precluded from raising her claim based on the October 1999 application because she did not include it in her EEOC charge; (iii) McGoffney was precluded from raising her retaliation claim on summary judgment because she did not include a retaliation claim in her complaint or amend the complaint to include a retaliation claim; and (iv) McGoffney failed to establish a genuine issue of fact as to whether FSSA's nondiscriminatory reasons for not hiring her in July 2000 and February 2001 were pretextual. 7 On appeal, McGoffney challenges the district court's order only with respect to her October 1999, July 2000, and February 2001 applications.