United States Seventh Circuit

In a Title VII suit alleging that defendant-employer unlawfully denied plaintiff a raise, and refused to allow him to qualify for increased compensation by visiting customers, dismissal for failure to state a claim is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) plaintiff's claims arising from a single past decision not to give him a raise were time-barred; but 2) defendant's alleged failure to inform plaintiff about customer-visit opportunities would constitute a fresh violation every year when plaintiff was denied raises on this basis, and so the claim on this issue was not time-barred.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/18/2008
• Decided 10/15/2008
• Published 10/15/2008

Judges

• WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, FLAUM, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Andrew P. Wirick, Christopher D. Cody (argued), Hume Smith Geddes Green & Simmons, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John K. Linker, Marcus R. Patton (argued), Alaniz & Schraeder, Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.