Legal Opinion
Iqbal Mathur v. Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 27, 2000No. 98-3431PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Iqbal Mathur convinced a jury that the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University (SIU) retaliated against him for filing suit alleging discrimination on account of his race, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5 et seq., but the district court overturned that result when it granted judgment as a matter of law in favor of SIU after the verdict was returned. The judge did so not because of any overriding legal principle, but for a more conventional reason: he was persuaded that, as a theoretical matter, Mathur had not…
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3Cited by43 opinions
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