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Title VII – Retaliation – Summary Judgment

By: Derek Hawkins//April 11, 2016//

Title VII – Retaliation – Summary Judgment

By: Derek Hawkins//April 11, 2016//

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7TH Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Nora Chaib v. The GEO Group, Inc.

Case No.: 15-1614

Officials: BAUER and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges, and PETERSON, District Judge.

Focus: Title VII – Retaliation – Summary Judgment

Summary judgment properly granted on appellant Title VII claim for failure to provide sufficient evidence to support claim.

“But even assuming that these disturbing incidents happened exactly as Chaib alleges, they were unrelated to the events and investigation that led to GEO Group’s decision to fire Chaib. Gorence v. Eagle Food Ctrs., Inc., 242 F.3d 759, 762 (7th Cir. 2001) (“[E]vidence of inappropriate remarks not shown to be directly related to the employment decision may not support a direct-method-of-proof case.”). There is no evidence that Lieutenant Davis participated in GEO Group’s decision to fire Chaib. Without some connection between the offensive conduct that Chaib described and the termination decision, no reasonable jury could make the requisite inference that she was fired for discriminatory reasons. Chaib’s directmethod argument fails.”

Affirmed

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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