United States Seventh Circuit

Failure to name a parent corporation in a complaint with the state Equal Rights Division and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission warrants dismissal from the suit unless the plaintiff can show that the parent had notice of the claim against it, and not just its subsidiary, and had an opportunity to settle on its own behalf.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/09/2001
• Decided 09/25/2001
• Published 09/25/2001

Judges

• WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert S. Hesslink, Jr. (argued), Verona, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lauri D. Morris (argued), Quarles & Brady, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.