054474P.pdf   09/07/2006  Rashid Arraleh  v.  Cty. of Ramsey
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-4474
   District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Heaney and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - civil rights. Even if plaintiff did establish a prima facie
   case of intentional discrimination in defendant's decision not to hire him
   for a permanent position, he failed to present evidence sufficient to
   support a finding that the defendant's stated reasons for declining to hire
   him were a pretext for race and national origin discrimination; while there
   was a temporal proximity between plaintiff's complaint of discrimination
   and the decision not to hire him for a permanent position, he failed to
   show the stated reasons for the hiring decision were a pretext for
   retaliation since the actions relied on in defendant's stated reasons
   preceded the complaint; on plaintiff's claim of hostile work environment,
   the district court did not err in granting the defendant's motion for
   summary judgment as plaintiff failed to show defendant did not respond
   to the harassment in a prompt and efficient manner. Judge Heaney,
   dissenting.