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WILLIAMSON v. HANDY BUTTON MACH. CO.

Nos. 86-2019, 86-2049.

817 F.2d 1290 (1987)

Beatrice WILLIAMSON, Plaintiff-Appellee — Cross-Appellant, v. HANDY BUTTON MACHINE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant — Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 4, 1987.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied June 11, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald L. Johnson, Johnson & Schwartz, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant-cross-appellee.

Mark E. Furlane, Gardner, Carton & Douglas, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee-cross-appellant.

Before EASTERBROOK and MANION, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied June 11, 1987.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Beatrice Williamson worked for 21 years at the Handy Button Machine Co., principally as an assembly operator. She was fired in 1977 after she failed to reply to a telegram from Handy Button. The jury in this case under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., was entitled to find that Williamson did not answer the telegram...

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