Sufficiency of Evidence

By: Derek Hawkins//August 22, 2017//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Virginia E. Mourning v. Ternes Packaging, Indiana, Inc.

Case No.: 16-1650

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and RIPPLE and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence

Virginia “Ginger” Mourning appeals the grant of summary judgment for her former employer, Ternes Packaging–Indiana, Inc., on her claims that Ternes fired her because she is a woman, in violation of her rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2, and because she took medical leave that was protected under the Family and Medical Leave Act, 29 U.S.C. § 2615. Mourning challenges the district court’s determinations that she failed to submit evidence establishing a prima facie case for either claim or showing that Ternes’s reasons for her discharge were pretextual. We agree with the district court’s conclusions and affirm the judgment.

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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