Legal Opinion
George J. Luddington v. Indiana Bell Telephone Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 4, 1992No. 91-2320PublishedCited by 146 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
George Luddington has been employed by Indiana Bell since 1966. In 1979 he moved out of the worker ranks and into a bottom-rung management position, where he has been stuck ever since. Between 1982 and 1984 he applied for at least 35 other positions — most higher, some not— with the company. Turned down every time, in 1986 he filed this suit, which charges that every turndown precipitated four distinct statutory violations, for a total of 140, because every one was both an act of racial discrimination and an act of retaliation for complaining about discrimination and…
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