Everett v. County, No. 10-1975 (7th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff began working as a dentist at a facility for jail detainees in 1982. By 2006, Cook County had a budget shortfall of 500 million dollars. It was determined that the facility could provide sufficient care with only one of its five dentists and that the remaining dentist had to have some management experience, and a history of flexibility, productivity, emergent clinical skill, and responsiveness to other physicians' needs. Plaintiff was not selected. Provided with an explanation of the decision, a hearing officer denied an appeal. Plaintiff filed suit, claiming that political considerations infected the decision, in violation of the Shakman decree and 42 U.S.C. 1983 and that the choice to lay her off was predicated on her Caucasian ethnicity and female gender, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the county. The Seventh Circuit affirmed. Plaintiff failed to meet her prima facia burden. The claim did not explain what evidence shows background circumstances of discriminatory conduct. If she had satisfied her prima facie case, the claim would fail because she did not establish that the reasons for the decision were pretextual.
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