Legal Opinion
Mark Mason v. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 5, 2000No. 99-3120PublishedCited by 147 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge. '
Mark Mason is a black man who worked as a dispatcher (or “telecommunicator”) for the Department of Public Safety (the campus police) at Southern Illinois University (SIU). His health problems frequently caused him to miss work for substantial periods of time, and these absences either caused or greatly contributed to his supervisor’s dislike of him. Mason thought this dislike was racially motivated, so after he was fired, he sued SIU under Title VIL A jury found for SIU, and Mason appeals, contending that the district court erred in excluding evidence of racial…
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