Legal Opinion
Phillips v. Continental Tire Americas, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 14, 2014No. 13-2199PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
Continental Tire The Americas, LLC (CTA) terminated Jeff Phillips’s employment after he refused to take a drug test upon his initiation of a workers’ compensation claim. Phillips sued, alleging that CTA retaliated against him for seeking workers’ compensation benefits in violation of Illinois law. The district court granted CTA’s motion for summary judgment, and Phillips appealed. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
I. Background
CTA has a tire manufacturing facility in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. Phillips worked there as a passenger general trucker for twenty-two years…
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