8/19/2016 · Ortiz worked as a freight broker for Werner Enterprises for seven years until his discharge in 2012. Werner claims that it fired Ortiz for falsifying business records. Ortiz claims that Werner fired him because of his Mexican ethnicity and sued Werner under 42 U.S.C. 1981 and the Illinois Human Rights Act. The Seventh Circuit reversed the district court’s summary judgment rejection of the …
2/8/2016 · Henry Ortiz worked as a freight broker for Werner Enterprises , Inc.
for seven years until his discharge in 2012. Werner says that it fired Ortiz for falsifying business records. Ortiz says that Werner fired him because of his Mexican ethnicity, and he sued Werner under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and the Illinois Human Rights Act, 775 ILCS 5/1-101 to 5 …
8/22/2016 · Ortiz v. Werner Enterprises , Inc.
No. 15-2574 (7th Cir. Aug. 19, 2016): for the past two decades, the Seventh Circuit has instructed litigants in Title VII cases that There are two routes to establishing employment discrimination at the summary judgment stage: the “direct” method, using admissions of discriminatory purpose or a …
8/19/2016 · Henry Ortiz worked as a freight broker for Werner Enterprises , Inc.
for seven years until his discharge in 2012. Werner says that it fired Ortiz for falsifying business records. Ortiz says that Werner fired him because of his Mexican ethnicity, and he sued Werner under 42 U.S.C. §1981 and the Illinois Human Rights Act, 775 ILCS 5/1-101 to 5 …
8/19/2016 · Henry Ortiz worked as a freight broker for Werner Enterprises , Inc.
for seven years until his discharge in 2012. Werner says that it fired Ortiz for falsifying business records. Ortiz says that Werner fired him because of his Mexican ethnicity, and he sued Werner under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and the Illinois Human Rights Act, 775 ILCS 5/1–101 to …
Parties, docket activity and news coverage of federal case Ortiz v. Werner Enterprises , Inc.,, case number 1:13-cv-08270, from Illinois Northern Court.
10/24/2016 · In Ortiz v. Werner Enterprises , Ortiz worked as a freight broker for Werner Enterprises until he was fired in 2012 for falsifying business records.[3] Ortiz argued that he had not falsified business records, but rather, corrected incorrect records and that the Werner Enterprise fired him because of his ethnicity.[4] Ortiz is a Mexican-American …
8/29/2016 · The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Ortiz v. Werner Enterprises , Inc.
No. 15-2574 (7th Cir. Aug. 19, 2016), ruled that the district court had impermissibly looked at both direct evidence standards and indirect evidence standards as requiring a “convincing mosaic” of discrimination as a separate legal test when reviewing the evidence in …
11/8/2016 · In Ortiz v. Werner Enterprises , Inc.
the 7th Circuit held that courts should no longer attempt to characterize evidence as either “direct” or “indirect” and cannot rely on the “convincing mosaic of discrimination” metaphor as a legal standard. Instead, the Court held that the proper legal standard for evaluating employment …
1 Ortiz v. Werner Enterprises , Inc.
No. 13 C 8270, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 15284 (7th Cir. Aug. 19, 2016). 2 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v . Green, 411 U.S. 792, 802 (1973). This case focused on discrimination cases under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but has since been expanded to discrimination and retaliation
