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No. 15-1731
municipal
corporation
of
the
State
of
Defendant - Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Baltimore.
Stephanie A. Gallagher, Magistrate
Judge. (1:13-cv-03236-SAG)
Submitted:
Decided:
March 8, 2016
PER CURIAM:
Tomi
Boone
Finkle
appeals
from
the
magistrate
judges
the
Civil
Rights
Act
of
1964
(Title
VII),
42
U.S.C.A.
2000e to 2000e-17 (West 2012 & Supp. 2015), and the Maryland
Fair Employment Practices Act, Md. Code Ann., State Govt 20606(a)(1)(i)
(West
2014),
when
she
was
not
selected
for
We affirm.
first
in
argues
granting
ruling
for
that
the
an
the
district
protective
abuse
of
court
order.
discretion.
abused
We
its
review
Kolon
Indus.
Inc. v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., 748 F.3d 160, 172 (4th
Cir.),
cert.
denied,
135
S.
Ct.
437
(2014).
An
abuse
of
records
County
for
Police
seven
commanding
Department.
officers
Moreover,
within
Finkles
the
broad
When reviewing
review
all
the
factual
merits
of
disputes
each
and
motion,
any
taking
competing,
care
to
rational
motion,
to
ascertain
whether
either
of
the
parties
Defs. of Wildlife v.
N.C.
392
Dept
of
Transp.,
762
F.3d
374,
(4th
Cir.
2014)
In determining whether a
Plaintiffs
either
through
may
prove
direct
and
violations
indirect
evidence
[of
of
Title
VII]
retaliatory
burden-shifting
framework
F.3d
243,
249
(4th
of
McDonnell
Douglas
Corp.
v.
Cir.
2015).
Direct
evidence
[of
contends
that
she
offered
direct
evidence
of
by
potentially
one
of
the
unfavorable
We disagree.
hiring
decisionmakers
attitude
toward
that
reflects
transgender
persons. 3
challenges.
Isolated
remarks
unrelated
to
the
challenged
further
inappropriate
asserts
under
the
that
summary
McDonnell
judgment
Douglas
was
burden-shifting
of
itself
discriminatory.
If
plaintiff
establishes
shifts
to
the
[employer]
to
show
that
its
purportedly
Once
this burden is met, the plaintiff must show that the proffered
reasons are pretextual.
Id.
is
proposition
Countys
response
itself
we
need
additional
time
discriminatory
was
not
review,
reasons
for
and,
she
not
significantly
thus,
does
not
selecting
longer
pretextual,
than
address
her:
any
the
that
her
of
the
for
the
position.
5
Because
these
additional
reasons
are
nondiscriminatory,
we
conclude
that
the
district