Court Opinion

ID: 9488507
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 12:47:33.765989+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:52:55.868115
License: Public Domain

BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
Because I believe the court’s opinion correctly determines de novo that the appellant did not offer any competent evidence to rebut the appellee’s proof of an adequate nondiscriminatory basis for removing appellant from his former position as a programmer, I join part IIB of the court’s opinion and the *460judgment affirming the district court decision in this case. And while a review of our important decision in Nettles v. Wainwright, 677 F.2d 404, 408 (5th Cir.1982) (en banc) may indeed be in order, I am not prepared to urge at this time either the retention or abandonment of the de novo review required by Nettles in the instant case to the en bane court. I would also point out that under either the de novo standard or the plain error standard the outcome of appellant’s pro se appeal would remain the same.