Legal Opinion

Harriet Walczak v. Chicago Board of Education

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided January 10, 2014No. 12-2808PublishedCited by 69 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SYKES, Circuit Judge.

Harriet Walczak was in her fourth decade of teaching in the Chicago Public School system when her school’s new principal placed her in a performance-remediation program during the 2007-2008 academic year. By the end of that school year, she was facing discharge proceedings. Walczak thought that the principal had it in for her based on her age (she was in her late fifties when the new principal started in 2006), so she filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) alleging a violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”), 29…

2Cases cited23 opinions

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  2. Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982
  3. Killingsworth v. HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2007
  4. River Park, Inc. v. City of Highland ParkIllinois Supreme Court · 1998
  5. Rein v. David A. Noyes & Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1996

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3Cited by69 opinions

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