Legal Opinion
Tisa N. Crawford v. Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 23, 2006No. 05-2825PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Tisa Crawford brought this Title YII suit against her former employer, lost when the judge granted summary judgment for the defendant, and appeals. She worked as a “conductor” — the job that used to be called “trainman” or “brakeman” — which meant operating the switches that move the tracks, coupling and uncoupling the rail cars, and warning the engineers about derailment dangers. She was fired after receiving eight reprimands in her first year of work: four reprimands for not reporting for duty, two for failing to properly stabilize a boxcar (and in one of these…
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