Rena Anne Ramnarine v. Rainbow Child Development Center, Inc.

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 18-1985
RENA ANNE RAMNARINE,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER, INC.; RAINBOW ACADEMY,
INC.; KIM T. MITCHELL, LLC; KIM TERESE MITCHELL,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Greenbelt.
Roger W. Titus, Senior District Judge. (8:17-cv-02262-RWT)
Submitted: September 30, 2019 Decided: November 6, 2019
Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and AGEE, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Omar Vincent Melehy, Andrew Balashov, MELEHY & ASSOCIATES LLC, Silver
Spring, Maryland, for Appellant. David A. Branch, LAW OFFICE OF DAVID A.
BRANCH & ASSOCIATES, PLLC, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Rena Anne Ramnarine appeals the district court’s order granting summary
judgment to Defendants on her claims under the antiretaliation provision of the Fair
Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 215(a)(3) (2012). The district court noted that
Ramnarine hedged as to whether she could teach for the entirety of the upcoming school
year and concluded that Ramnarine had not established that her protected activity caused
her termination or that Defendants’ proffered reason was pretextual. See Ray v. Int’l
Paper Co., 909 F.3d 661, 669 (4th Cir. 2018) (providing standard); Darveau v. Detecon,
Inc., 515 F.3d 334, 340, 342-43 (4th Cir. 2008) (same). We have reviewed the record
and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the district
court. Ramnarine v. Rainbow Child Dev. Ctr., No. 8:17-cv-02262-RWT (D. Md. July 26,
2018). We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are
adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the
decisional process.
AFFIRMED

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