Legal Opinion
Cherry Haywood v. Lucent Technologies, Incorporated
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 20, 2003No. 01-4092PublishedCited by 189 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Cherry Haywood, an African American woman who worked for some time at Lu-cent Technologies as an engineer, had consistently unfavorable performance reviews. After a tense encounter with a supervisor, Lucent fired her. Convinced that it had done so for racially discriminatory reasons and in retaliation for an earlier complaint, Haywood sued Lucent under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq. To these federal claims, she added a supplemental state law claim for defamation. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Lucent…
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