IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
No. 99-40746
(Summary Calendar)
FREDDY L. WALKER,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
versus
BAPTIST HOSPITAL-ORANGE TEXAS; TERRY
WILLIAMS, Director of Support Services;
BUDDY BROWN, Head of Department of
Maintenance; MIKE DANIELS, Supervisor of
Engineering,
Defendants-Appellees.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Texas
(1:97-CV-662)
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July 12, 2000
Before POLITZ, SMITH, and WIENER, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
Plaintiff-Appellant Freddy L. Walker appeals from the district
court’s grant of summary judgment dismissing his action against
Defendants-Appellees. In connection with his appeal, Walker has
filed a motion with this court for leave to file an offer of
settlement of claims. We deny his motion and affirm the judgment
of the district court.
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Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined
that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent
except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR.
R. 47.5.4.
I.
FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS
After being fired from his maintenance job by Baptist
Hospital, Orange, Walker sued the hospital and the other
Defendants-Appellees, claiming racial discrimination in his firing
as well as false imprisonment and defamation. He was fired
immediately after being charged with stealing food from the
hospital cafeteria. Walker insists, however, that he was fired
because of an altercation he had had with the cafeteria supervisor
several weeks earlier, after which he had refused to sign a write-
up. He also alleges that he was set up by a cafeteria worker who,
like Walker, is black, when that worker gave him permission to take
the subject food item then denied it. Walker avers that this
particular cafeteria worker had a pattern of setting up her fellow
black co-workers for termination.
The district court dismissed Walker’s claims of false
imprisonment and defamation as time barred. Its grant of summary
judgment dismissing the racial discrimination claim was grounded in
Walker’s failure to establish a prima facie case and, in the
alternative, on the absence of proof of any racial component in the
bases that Walker asserts as the hospital’s real reasons for firing
him.
II.
ANALYSIS
We have carefully considered the operable facts and applicable
law in this case as reflected in the record on appeal, the briefs
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filed by the parties, and the Amended Memorandum Opinion of the
district court. As a result, we are convinced that the district
court committed no reversible error in granting summary judgment
and, indeed, correctly granted that judgment dismissing Walker’s
claims for the right reason. Even though our review is de novo, we
conclude that nothing would be gained by writing separately. We
therefore affirm the judgment and all rulings of the district court
for the reasons set forth in the thorough and craftsmanlike opinion
of that court. We also deny all pending motions, including without
limitation Walker’s motion for leave to file a motion for offer of
settlement.
AFFIRMED; MOTIONS DENIED.
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