Legal Opinion
Norma Perez v. Thorntons, Incorporated
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 30, 2013No. 12-3669PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
All employees, not only perfect employees, are protected by Title VII. Norma Perez was in all likelihood far from a perfect employee. From 2005 until 2009 she worked for Thorntons, Inc., a gasoline and convenience store chain. She was working as a retail store manager in November, 2009 when she deeply discounted about $127 worth of candy bars that she sold to herself for only $12. She was fired for failure to “control cash and/or inventory.” But only a few months earlier, Perez’s non-Hispanic male supervisor had committed a similar act and was merely warned, not fired.
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2Cases cited31 opinions
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