Legal Opinion
Frieda MASON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONTINENTAL ILLINOIS NATIONAL BANK and Ronald Friedman, Defendants-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 1, 1983No. 81-2893PublishedCited by 148 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Frieda Mason, a black employee of the Continental Illinois National Bank in Chicago, brought this suit under the Civil Rights Act of 1866, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, against the bank and one of its supervisory employees, complaining that she had been denied promotion because of her race. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants, and she appeals.
In August 1980, a position as transmission supervisor on the day shift of the communications section of the bank’s international services division — a salary grade 9 position — opened up, and Miss…
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