Legal Opinion
Vance v. Ball State University
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 3, 2011No. 08-3568PublishedCited by 123 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Maetta Vance was the only African-American working in her department at Ball State University (“Ball State”) when racially charged discord erupted. In 2005, Vance began filing complaints with Ball State about her coworkers’ offensive conduct, which included the use of racial epithets, references to the Ku Klux Klan, veiled threats of physical harm, and other unpleasantries. In 2006 she filed two complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) for race discrimination and, later, retaliation. After getting her right-to-sue letter, she filed this action…
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