Legal Opinion
Frank KASPER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SAINT MARY OF NAZARETH HOSPITAL, Defendant-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 9, 1998No. 97-1977PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The plaintiff, Frank Kasper, was assistant director of security at a Chicago hospital. In January of 1993 the hospital fired him. He brought suit under the federal age discrimination law (he was 42 when he was fired), adding a supplemental claim under Illinois law in which he charged that he had been fired in retaliation for having filed a workers’ compensation claim. The case was tried to a jury, which found for the hospital on the age discrimination claim but for Kasper on the claim of retaliation, awarding him $86,000 for lost wages to the date of trial, $400,000 for…
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