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United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                            Fifth Circuit
                                                                                          F I L E D
                                                                                         December 23, 2003
                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                 FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
                                                                                      Charles R. Fulbruge III
                                                                                              Clerk
                                   _________________________

                                         No. 03 – 10494
                                     SUMMARY CALENDAR
                                   _________________________

MARIAH HILL SCOTT,

                        Plaintiff - Appellant

   v.

DALLAS COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT, individually and doing business as PARKLAND
HEALTH AND HOSPITAL SYSTEM,

                        Defendant - Appellee

______________________________________________________________________________

                 On Appeal from the United States District Court for the
                              Northern District of Texas
                                  (3:01-CV-02659)
______________________________________________________________________________

Before REYNALDO G. GARZA, DAVIS, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM1

        Plaintiff - Appellant, Mariah Hill Scott (hereinafter, “Scott”) appeals the district court's

decision granting Defendant - Appellee’s, Parkland Health and Hospital System (hereinafter,

“Parkland”), motion for summary judgment on Scott’s claims pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 206.

        Scott contends that she established a prima facie case of gender discrimination under the

        1
        Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the Court has determined that this opinion should not be
published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R.
47.5.4.

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Equal Pay Act and that Parkland failed to meet its burden of proof in establishing its affirmative

defense of an objective merit pay system. Scott argues that Parkland’s pay system included the

subjective component of employee evaluations, and that summary judgment was, therefore, not

warranted.

       A review of the record, however, confirms that Parkland satisfied its burden, and that

Scott failed to identify specific evidence demonstrating the existence of a genuine issue of fact for

trial. See Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322-23 (1986); Anderson v. Liberty Lobby,

Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 250 (1986). For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the district court’s decision.

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