Contreras v. Suncast Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ALESIA, District Judge.

Before the court is defendants’ motion for summary judgment pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(c). For the following reasons, the court grants defendants’ motion for summary judgment on all counts.

I. BACKGROUND 1

A. Factual background

Plaintiff Contreras, a United States citizen born in Mexico, was hired as a forklift operator at defendant Suncast Corporation’s (“Suncast”) Batvia, Illinois manufacturing facility on November 14, 1994. During Contreras’s employment, Thomas Tisbo (“Tisbo”) was Suncast’s President, Michael Hamilton…