Legal Opinion
Ellis v. CCA OF TENNESSEE LLC
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 9, 2011No. 10-2768PublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs in this case are former nurses who worked in the health care unit of a privately run jail. They maintain that their employer, CCA of Tennessee LLC (“CCA”), subjected them to racial discrimination and a hostile work environment, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981. They also allege that their employment relationship ended when CCA constructively terminated their employment for complaining about problems at the jail, in violation of a state whistleblower law. The district court granted CCA’s motion for summary…
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