Legal Opinion
Valentino Castro v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago, Succeeded by the Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 6, 2000No. 99-1672PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant Valentino Castro filed suit against his employer, defendant-appel-lee Board of Education of the City of Chicago, alleging (1) discrimination based on age and national origin and (2) retaliatory conduct. The district court dismissed the case sua sponte for failure to prosecute when Castro failed to file a scheduled pretrial order. Castro filed a motion to vacate the dismissal, which the district court denied. Castro appeals.
I. BACKGROUND
On May 21, 1997, Castro filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District…
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