Legal Opinion
Elizabeth C.O. Bellaver v. Quanex Corp./nichols-Homeshield
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 18, 2000No. 98-3708PublishedCited by 497 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Elizabeth Bellaver’s departure from hex-employer of twenty years, the Quanex Corp. of Houston, Texas, came at a time of significant reox-ganization fox- the company. Ordinarily, economic downturns and shakeups provide an employer great latitude in making personnel decisions. However, Congress x-efuses to afford an employer at any time — economically fortuitous or economically disastrous — the right to discriminate on the basis of sex, which is the question at the heart of this complaint.
After being discharged by Quanex, Bellaver sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights…
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