RUPCICH v. UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL

No. 14-3377.

833 F.3d 847 (2016)

Patricia RUPCICH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION, Local 881, and Jewel Food Stores, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 17, 2016.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied September 26, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neal C. Zazove , Attorney, Zazove & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jonathan D. Karmel , Attorney, Karmel Law Firm, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 881.

Michael A. Warner, Jr. , Attorney, Franczek Radelet P.C., Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Jewel Food Stores, Inc.

Before Kanne and Rovner, Circuit Judges, and Bruce, District Judge.


Plaintiff Patricia Rupcich was fired from her job of twenty-five years at one of Defendant Jewel Food Stores, Inc.'s stores in January 2012 for wheeling a twenty-five pound bag of birdseed in a grocery cart past the last cash register without paying for it. Rupcich said that she wheeled the birdseed past the last cash register...

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