Legal Opinion
Lamarce Tart and David Curtis v. Illinois Power Company and Rauly Law
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 26, 2004No. 03-2236PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Lamarce Tart and David Curtis prevailed before a jury on their claims of race-based employment discrimination and retaliation. The district court subsequently granted the defendants’ Rule 50 motion for judgment as a matter of law, vacating the jury’s verdict. Once a jury has spoken, we are obliged to construe the facts in favor of the parties who prevailed under the verdict. Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc., 530 U.S. 133, 150-51, 120 S.Ct. 2097, 147 L.Ed.2d 105 (2000). Because the district court 1 construed several key facts in favor of the…
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