Legal Opinion
Greene v. Potter
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 5, 2009No. 08-1829PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
Mary Alice Greene sued John E. Potter as Postmaster General of the United States (the post office), claiming that she was denied overtime opportunities because of her gender in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After Greene and one of her witnesses testified at trial, but before Greene finished her case-in-chief, the district court granted the post office’s motion for judgment as a matter of law and later denied Greene’s motion to reconsider the judgment and grant a new trial. Greene appeals both rulings and we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Greene worked as a…
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