Discrimination – Retaliation

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Roberta M. Jaburek

Case No.: 15-2165

Officials: WOOD,Chief Judge, and BAUER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Practice Area: Discrimination – Retaliation

Appellant fails to establish prima facie case for any of discrimination or retaliation allegations.

“In this case, Appellant has not demonstrated multiple elements of a prima facie case for Title VII failure to promote. Primarily, she has not shown that the FAA rejected her from the position of Program Analyst because she never applied for the position. See Johnson v. Gen. Bd. of Pension & Health Benefits of United Methodist Church, 733 F.3d 722, 728 (7th Cir. 2013) (holding that failure to promote claim requires that plaintiff “appl[y] for … the position sought” and granting summary judgment on Title VII failure to promote claim where plaintiff did not apply for higher position (quotation marks and citations omitted)). She instead provides her emails and letters to Wilson and Lay describing her duties as that of a Program Analyst. But this is not evidence of an application for the position.”

Affirmed

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