United States Seventh Circuit

District court's judgment in an employment retaliation suit is affirmed in part where: 1) plaintiffs were discharged in retaliation for correspondence protected under 46 U.S.C. 2114; 2) calculation of plaintiffs' remedies was correct; and 3) one defendant did not have an obligation to indemnify another. Judgment is reversed in part where: 1) one defendant did not engage in retaliation; and 2) two additional plaintiffs were entitled to protection under the statute.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/16/2006
• Published 06/16/2006

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, WOOD and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Edward M. Gleason, Jr. (argued), Beins, Axelrod, Kraft, Gleason & Gibson, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Julia D. Mannix (argued), Davis, Mannix & McGrath, Ungaretti & Harris, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants., Nicholas Anaclerio, Jr., (argued), Ungaretti & Harris, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.