Legal Opinion
Rodgers v. White
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 2, 2011No. 10-3916PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
Mark Rodgers, a longtime employee of the Secretary of State’s office in Illinois, was fired from his job but reinstated after arbitration. In this litigation he claims that two white managers targeted him for termination because he is black. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants. Rodgers’s primary argument on appeal is that he and two white coworkers engaged in the same alleged misconduct, yet his white counterparts were treated less harshly. Rodgers focuses on the eoworker with the same job title, but the other white employee, Rodgers’s…
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