Court Opinion

ID: 9487953
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 12:31:14.5251+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:52:35.073897
License: Public Domain

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
The district court gave careful consideration to this ease, analyzing the facts and issues in a careful, thorough memorandum opinion that conscientiously applied the standards of review appropriate to a summary judgment motion.
With regard to the issue upon which the court now reverses and remands, the district court made the following observation by way of a footnote:
Plaintiff also contends that a white employee who was unable to tolerate the noise in the pressroom was transferred to an office job. Plaintiffs supervisor has testified that Plaintiff did not have the skills necessary to qualify for an office position.... Plaintiff does not challenge that assertion. Defendant had no obligation to transfer Plaintiff to a position for which he was not qualified. Therefore, Defendant’s failure to offer Plaintiff an office position is not unlawful, (citation omitted)
What more should be required of the district court is beyond me. To liken the facts of this case to those in Stacks does a disservice to the district court’s careful consideration of Webb’s contentions.
I would affirm the order granting summary judgment.