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No. 10-1469
BYRON J. LEE,
Plaintiff Appellant,
v.
MICHAEL
J.
ASTRUE,
Administration,
Commissioner,
Social
Security
Defendant Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Baltimore.
Catherine C. Blake, District Judge.
(1:09-cv-00997-CCB)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Byron J. Lee appeals the district courts judgment in
Defendants
favor
on
his
race
and
gender
discrimination
and
denial
of
within-grade
pay
increase
and
that,
Defendant
relied
in
on
deciding
Lees
to
terminate
failure
to
Lees
employment,
properly
complete
federal
critique
of
service;
his
and
(ii)
performance
and
he
disputes
asserts
his
that
supervisors
the
standards
We have
607
(4th
Cir.
2010),
and
affirm
the
district
courts
judgment.
We hold that the district court correctly determined
that the fact that there was additional unsatisfactory work on
which [Lees supervisor] based his termination proposal does not
demonstrate
that
[Defendant]
acted
adversely
against
Mr.
Lee
As
the
on
district
Lees
court
supervisors
underperformance
service.
in
correctly
noted,
to
describe
its
proposal
it
was
every
to
not
incumbent
instance
remove
him
of
from
Lees
federal
Cf. Rana v. United States, 812 F.2d 887, 889 (4th Cir.
was
not
clearly
erroneous,
because
even
though
instances
of
unacceptable
performance
as
well
as
not
warrant
discipline
and
that
the
standards
used
to
his
work
performance
that
was
relevant
to
its
analysis,
See Evans
v. Tech. Apps. & Serv. Co., 80 F.3d 954, 960-61 (4th Cir. 1996)
(It is the perception of the decision maker which is relevant,
not the self-assessment of the plaintiff.) (internal quotation
marks
and
citation
omitted).
In
the
absence
of
evidence
See Jiminez v.
Mary Washington Coll., 57 F.3d 369, 383 (4th Cir. 1995) (The
crucial
issue
in
Title
VII
action
is
an
unlawfully
dispense
with
oral
argument
because
the
facts
and
legal
AFFIRMED