Legal Opinion
Chapin v. Fort-Rohr Motors, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 3, 2010No. 09-1347, 09-2177PublishedCited by 144 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Trent L. Chapin was employed by the Bob Rohrman Auto Group as a car salesman. Following his termination at one Rohrman-owned dealership, Chapin filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that the manager discriminated against white Christians in favor of Pakistani Muslims. His new employer, a second Rohrmanowned dealership, heard about this and threatened to fire Chapin unless the complaint was withdrawn. After this threat was made, Chapin left work and never returned, despite Fort-Rohr Motors, Inc.’s (“Fort-Rohr”) repeated efforts to…
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