Employment Discrimination

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Anthony Robinson, et al. v. Alfred Perales, et al.

Case No.: 16-2291; 16-3390

Officials: KANNE, ROVNER, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges

Focus: Employment Discrimination

Anthony Robinson and Timothy Spangler, police officers employed by the University of Illinois at Chicago Police Department(“Department”), brought claims against the University of Illinois Board of Trustees and four individuals for race‐based discrimination, harassment and retaliation. The district court disposed of all but one of the claims through summary judgment. Robinson then prevailed at trial on a claim for retaliation against his supervisor, Alfred Perales, recovering nominal damages. The district court denied Robinson’s motion for a new trial and to alter the judgment. The court also declined to award attorneys’ fees to Robinson and denied Perales’s motion for judgment as a matter of law. Robinson, Spangler and Perales all appeal. We affirm in part and vacate and remand in part.

Affirmed in part. Vacated and Remanded in part.

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