By: Derek Hawkins//March 21, 2017//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: Sabina Burton v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, et al
Case No.: 16-2982
Officials: FLAUM, MANION, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Retaliatory Action – Title VII
Sabina Burton, a professor in the criminal justice department at the University of Wisconsin‐ Platteville, sued the school’s Board of Regents and three individual defendants. She claims that her superiors took several retaliatory actions against her over the course of about two years. She seeks relief under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The district court granted summary judgment to the Board and the individual defendants. For the reasons set forth be‐ low, we affirm the judgment of the district court.
Affirmed