Legal Opinion

Tony Brummett v. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Incorporated

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided July 6, 2005No. 04-3373PublishedCited by 229 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

Tony Brummett, an African-American male, filed this action against his former employer, Sinclair Acquisition IV, Inc. (“Sinclair”), 1 for alleged race discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. The district court granted Sinclair’s motion for summary judgment. For the reasons set forth in the following opinion, we affirm the judgment of the district court.

I

BACKGROUND

A. Facts

Sinclair owns and operates two television broadcast stations, known by the call letters WICS and WICD, located in central Illinois. In the fall…

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