Legal Opinion
Dewitt v. Proctor Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 27, 2008No. 07-1957PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
After she was fired from her job as a registered nurse at Proctor Hospital, 47-year-old Phillis Dewitt sued, alleging “association discrimination” under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as well as age and gender discrimination. The district court entered summary judgment in *946favor of Proctor. The court also denied Dewitt’s motion for leave to amend her complaint to add a claim of ERISA retaliation. Today we resolve Dewitt’s appeal from those decisions.
In September 2001, Proctor, a hospital in Peoria, Illinois, hired Dewitt to work as a nurse on an “as-needed”…
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