Legal Opinion
James Bennington v. Caterpillar Incorporated
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 28, 2001No. 01-1361PublishedCited by 272 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Chief Judge.
The appellant, James Bennington, has filed the instant appeal contesting the district court’s grant of summary judgment against him and the district court’s refusal to grant an extension of discovery. For the reasons stated herein, we affirm the decisions of the district court.
I. BACKGROUND
James Bennington was born in 1944 and began his employment with Caterpillar, Inc. (“Caterpillar”) in 1965. He continued to work with that company until 1998. In 1987, after several years of exemplary performance, Caterpillar made Bennington a manufacturing superintendent in its…
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