Court Opinion

ID: 3028559
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-10-13 22:40:56.027789+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:03.758836
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM.
 

  FBI Special Agent Phyllis Jean Cournan was suspended for ten days on November 28, 1997, after admitting she had disclosed confidential FBI information during a high-profile murder investigation. In this Title VII action, Cournan alleges that the suspension was in retaliation for her 1994 EEOC sex discrimination complaint and that she received disparate treatment because male FBI agents have disclosed Bureau information without being disciplined. The district court
  
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  granted the Attorney General’s motion for summary judgment, concluding that both claims fail because the FBI obviously advanced a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for suspending Cournan—her unauthorized disclosure of confidential information—and Cournan failed to come forward with sufficient evidence that the reason given was a pretext for either unlawful retaliation or disparate treatment. Cournan appeals the dismissal of her retaliation claim. After careful review of the summary judgment record, we affirm for the reasons stated in the district court’s June 25, 2001, Order.
  
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  8th Cir. Rule 47B.
 

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   . The HONORABLE SUSAN WEBBER WRIGHT, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.