Legal Opinion
Selester GILTY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VILLAGE OF OAK PARK, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 7, 1990No. 89-2764PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
In 1985, Selester Gilty misrepresented his academic credentials in order to gain a promotion. Now, some years and several misrepresentations later, he alleges racial discrimination in his employer’s failure to promote him and later decision to discharge him. But Gilty’s claims collapse of their own weight, and we affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of his employer.
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Every three years the police department of the Village of Oak Park (“Village”) constructs an “eligibility list” of those officers seeking promotion to the rank of…
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