United States Seventh Circuit

Job qualifications are a business decision of the employer, not the courts. An employee's discrimination claims fail where another employer was paid more but had a higher educational background and performed different duties, while plaintiff did not.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/17/2001
• Decided 03/08/2001
• Published 03/08/2001

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael L. Tinaglia (Argued), Chicago, IL, Laurie E. Leader, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marcia A. Mahoney (Argued), James S. Poor, Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.