Legal Opinion
Alvin Hunter v. Allis-Chalmers Corporation, Engine Division, and Andre J. Lambert, Defendants
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 30, 1986No. 85-2401PublishedCited by 346 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Allis-Chalmers and one of its supervisory employees, Lambert, appeal from a judgment imposing liability under civil rights law for their having failed to protect Hunter, a black employee at Allis-Chalmers’ en gine plant in Harvey, Illinois, from racial harassment by his white co-workers, and for having fired him when he filed a complaint about the harassment. The appeal raises a number of issues concerning the sufficiency of the evidence, the conduct of the trial, and the size of the judgment.
Hunter was hired in 1973 as a machinist and in 1978 became an engine tester.…
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