Legal Opinion
Robert WALLACE, II, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SMC PNEUMATICS, INC., Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 10, 1997No. 96-1609PublishedCited by 230 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The plaintiff in a Title VII case, Robert Wallace, appeals from the grant of summary judgment to the defendant, his former employer, SMC Pneumatics, Inc. (we’ll call it “SMC” for short). A manufacturer of door-opening systems and other industrial equipment, SMC is the American subsidiary of a Japanese corporation, and Wallace claims to be a victim of discrimination on the basis of his being an American rather than a Japanese. See 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(l). SMC had hired Wallace in 1988 as its Engineering Manager. Two years later, when it won a contract to manufacture door…
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