Legal Opinion

James Mollet v. City of Greenfield

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided June 13, 2019No. 18-3685PublishedCited by 57 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Bauer, Circuit Judge.

In this case we must decide whether James Mollet's complaint about a racially *895 charged incident was the but-for cause of his constructive discharge. For the reasons below, we answer in the negative and affirm the decision of the district court.

I. BACKGROUND

James Mollet began working as a firefighter for the Greenfield Fire Department in 1995. The Greenfield Fire Department had three eight-hour shifts each day and one battalion chief supervised each. Mollet rose through the ranks of the fire department and became a battalion chief in 2009.

In November 2011, John Cohn was…

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