Read Stephens v. Erickson, 08-1416

In an action for employment discrimination and retaliation, district court's grant of summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff failed to produce enough evidence to support an inference that defendant's failure to promote was in retaliation for his protected activity; 2) the alterations to plaintiff's job were not materially adverse and insufficient to dissuade a reasonable employee from filing a discrimination charge; and 3) the court properly determined that certain comments made by other employees were either hearsay or irrelevant to the issue of whether plaintiff was terminated for a retaliatory purpose.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/06/2009
• Decided 06/30/2009
• Published 06/30/2009

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before KANNE, WOOD, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard J. Gonzalez, Attorney (argued), Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Suzanne M. Loose, Attorney (argued), City of Chicago Law Department, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.