Legal Opinion
Celestine O. Butts v. Aurora Health Care, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 5, 2004No. 03-4061PublishedCited by 121 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Celestine Butts, an African-American woman, sued her employer, Aurora Health Care, Inc., alleging that it failed to promote her because of her race; The district court (Magistrate Judge Aaron E. Good-stein sitting by consent) entered summary judgment in favor of Aurora, concluding that Butts failed to present evidence that the reason Aurora gave for not promoting her was pretext for covering up racial discrimination.
Both parties adopted Judge Goodstein’s factual recitation, which means the facts are undisputed, and we proceed on that assumption. Here,- then,…
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