Legal Opinion
Belinda Egan v. Freedom Bank
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 6, 2011No. 10-1214PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Only seven months after Freedom Bank recruited Belinda Egan to serve as one of its vice presidents, the bank fired her. She had no performance issues, no attendance problems, and no complaints against her. What she did have, though, was dinner shortly after she began with a member of the bank’s board of directors. The board member told her the fantasies he had about her, and she declined his advances. Egan complained to the bank’s Human Resources officer that the board member had sexually harassed her, and the board member resigned. Shortly after that, the person named…
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