Legal Opinion
Simpson v. Franciscan Alliance, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 28, 2016No. 15-2679PublishedCited by 108 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Arlene Simpson, a registered nurse, claimed that she was fired from her job in a surgical unit at Franciscan St. James Health principally because she is over age 40 and African American. The district court granted St. James’s motion for summary judgment, reasoning that Simpson had established a prima facie ease of discrimination under the indirect method of McDonnell Douglas Corporation v. Green, 411 U.S. 792, 93 S.Ct. 1817, 36 L.Ed.2d 668 (1973), but lacked evidence that the defendant’s explanation for firing her was pre-textual. We . conclude, however, that Simpson did…
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