United States Seventh Circuit

In an employment and race discrimination action against Deere & Company (Deere) under Title VII and section 1981, district court's grant of defendant's motion for summary judgment is affirmed where plaintiff failed to make out a prima facie case of racial discrimination because he was unable to demonstrate that a similarly situated person not in the protected class was treated more favorably than he was. Further, even if plaintiff could make out a prima facie case of race discrimination, he has not demonstrated that Deere intentionally discriminated against him because of his race.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/07/2009
• Decided 09/11/2009
• Published 09/11/2009

Judges

• LAWRENCE, District Judge., Before FLAUM and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and LAWRENCE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lawrence Allen Stein (argued), Huck Bouma, Wheaton, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William P. Rector (argued), Bozeman, Neighbour, Patton & Noe, Moline, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.