Legal Opinion
Patricia D. Swanson v. Elmhurst Chrysler Plymouth, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 16, 1989No. 88-2290PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff sued under Title VII of 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. claiming discharge and loss of wages and benefits for refusal to submit to sexual harassment. The district court found that there had been harassment, but that the harassment had not caused plaintiff’s discharge. The district court awarded the plaintiff a judgment with nominal damages of $1 plus attorney’s fees.
The two questions on appeal are: (1) did the district court clearly err in finding that the sexual harassment here did not cause plaintiff’s discharge?; and (2) if the discharge finding was not clearly…
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