Legal Opinion
Irene Mojica, Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Gannett Company, Inc., Owner of Wgci-Fm Radio Station, Defendant-Appellant/cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 27, 1993No. 91-3921, 92-1104PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Irene Mojica, an Hispanic female, worked the “graveyard” shift as the overnight disc jockey at a popular Chicago radio station, WGCI-FM, owned by Gannett Company, Inc. In July 1990 she sued Gannett claiming, among other things, sex and national origin discrimination under 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-2 (Title VII) and 42 U.S.C. § 1981, because she had never been promoted into a better time slot. A few weeks before the scheduled trial, Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1991, Pub.L. 102-166, 105 Stat. 1071-1099. *555The district court applied the new law retroactively, and the…
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