United States Seventh Circuit

In plaintiff's second employment discrimination suit against the Chicago Police Department (CPD) claiming retaliation and sex discrimination, summary judgment in favor of CPD is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff provided insufficient evidence that she suffered an adverse employment action because she engaged in statutorily protected activity by direct method of proof that either of her two actionable transfers occurred because of her prior lawsuit or her 2006 grievance; 2) plaintiff did not provide sufficient evidence to establish a causal connection under the indirect method of proof; and 3) plaintiff failed on her sex discrimination claim for the same reason as her retaliation claim, as she failed to adduce any evidence indicating that her actionable transfers were because of her sex.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/06/2009
• Decided 11/17/2009
• Published 11/17/2009

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Kane (argued), Lisa Kane & Associates, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mara S. Georges, Office of Corp. Counsel, Appeals Div., Chicago, IL, Christopher S. Norborg, City of Chicago Law Department, Chicago, IL, Ruth F. Masters (argued), Oak Park, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.