Legal Opinion
Sukumari Nair v. R. James Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 2, 2006No. 05-3673PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This Title VII case charges discrimination in the form of subjecting the plaintiff to a hostile working environment because of her national origin, and also retaliation for her complaining about that discrimination to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendant.
Nair, the plaintiff, is a nurse in a veterans hospital. In 1995 and again in 2000 she complained to the EEOC about discrimination by her supervisory employees on the basis of her national origin; she was born in India. These matters were settled in…
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