Legal Opinion
King v. ACOSTA SALES AND MARKETING, INC.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 13, 2012No. 11-3617PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
Acosta Sales and Marketing is a food broker, which represents producers that seek to sell to supermarkets and other bulk purchasers. In 2001 Acosta’s mid-west operation hired Susan King as one of its business managers — a term that Acosta uses for people who represent a group of producers. (McCormick & Co., which sells spices and spiced foods, was one of King’s major clients.) After quitting in 2007, King charged Acosta with two kinds of sex discrimination: that Acosta maintained a hostile work environment in which conditions for women were inferior to those for men,…
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