Legal Opinion
Tollie Carter v. Chicago State University
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 11, 2015No. 13-3367PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Tollie Carter appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment for defendants Chicago State University (“CSU”) and Farhad Simyar. He argues that CSU and Simyar retaliated against him in violation of the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) and Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (“Section 1981”) by not appointing him acting department chair of CSU’s Department of Accounting and Finance in November of 2008. Carter also claims that the district court abused its discretion in denying his motion to reconsider its grant of summary judgment. For the…
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