Legal Opinion
Edison K. Spearman v. Ford Motor Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 3, 2000No. 99-3538PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Edison Spearman sued his current employer, Ford Motor Company, alleging that Ford violated Title VII by subjecting him to a hostile environment of sexual harassment, retaliating against him for opposing sexual harassment, and for discriminating against him on the basis of his sex. Ford moved for summary judgment, which the district court granted. Spearman appeals, and we affirm.
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Edison Spearman is a black man and a homosexual 1 who has been working for Ford since 1990. In October 1995, Spear-man worked as a “blanker operator” at Ford’s Chicago Heights Stamping Plant,…
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