Legal Opinion
Zewde v. Elgin Community College
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided December 21, 1984No. 84 C 5598PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ASPEN, District Judge.
Fekade Zewde (“Zewde”), a black, Ethiopian man, has sued Elgin Community College (“Elgin”) and Dennis Sienko (“Sienko”) in a six-count complaint which alleges unlawful employment discrimination under various federal and state theories. Elgin and Sienko have moved to dismiss the suit, raising a host of challenges to the complaint. For the reasons stated below, the Court grants the motion in part and denies it in part.
I. Facts
The complaint alleges the following facts, which we assume to be true for the purposes of this motion. Elgin hired Zewde…
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