United States Fourth Circuit

In a failure-to-hire retaliation case, a selecting official's inconsistent statements are not enough to satisfy the plaintiff's burden of proof as to the elements of his case and does not provide sufficient evidence of pretext.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2004
• Published 08/19/2004

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge, and BOWMAN, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Leizer Zalman Goldsmith, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.   John Walter Sippel, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Thomas M. DiBiagio, United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.