Legal Opinion
Emmel v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 12, 1996No. 95-3558PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
In 1992 the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Chicago (“Coca-Cola”) promoted five men into newly created upper-management positions. Because she was not one of those promoted, Karen Emmel filed a Title VII sexual discrimination complaint. Emmel was then passed over for another set of upper-management positions and filed a second complaint. These two complaints eventually reached a district court jury which ruled that Coca-Cola had violated Emmel’s rights when *629it failed to promote her. In addition to lost wages of $43,000, the jury awarded Emmel $7,325 in compensatory damages…
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