Sufficiency of Evidence

By: Derek Hawkins//August 8, 2017//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Michele Nischan v. Stratosphere Quality, LLC, et al.

Case No.: 16-3464

Officials: POSNER, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence

Michele Nischan alleges that she was fired from her job for filing a sexual‐harassment complaint. Consequently, she brought a litany of claims in the Northern District of Illinois, suing three defendants: Stratosphere Quality, LLC—her employer; Chrysler Group LLC— her employer’s client; and Abbas Sabbah—her purported harasser. The district court dismissed her claims. We respectfully disagree with the court’s decision regarding Nischan’s sexual‐harassment claim against Stratosphere: Nischan offered sufficient evidence supporting that claim to avert Stratosphere’s motion for summary judgment. And to that extent, we reverse and remand the case. But we otherwise affirm.

Reversed and Remanded in part. Affirmed in part

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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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