Legal Opinion
Pat Roger v. Yellow Freight Systems, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 30, 1994No. 93-2613PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
Pat Roger filed this diversity action claiming that his employer, Yellow Freight Systems, Inc. (“Yellow Freight”), discharged him in retaliation for exercising his rights under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act (“the Act”), Ill.Rev.Stat. ch. 48, ¶¶ 138.1-138.30 (1989). The district court granted Yellow Freight’s motion for summary judgment after concluding that Mr. Roger had not exercised his rights under the Act, nor established a causal connection between the alleged exercise of his rights and Yellow Freight’s decision to terminate him. Because we agree that there…
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