Alfredo Aviles v. Cornell Forge Company

ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

This is a successive appeal of an employment discrimination case. The plaintiff asks us to find that calling the police to report that a disgruntled employee is waiting outside the workplace and may be armed is an adverse action as a matter of law. We decline the plaintiffs invitation because a truthful, nondiscriminatory report to the police should not subject an employer to Title VII liability. We therefore affirm the district court’s grant of a directed verdict at the close of the plaintiffs evidence.

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We will assume familiarity with our pri- or opinion…