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HAYWOOD v. LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

No. 01-4092.

323 F.3d 524 (2003)

Cherry HAYWOOD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 20, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Holman (argued), Naperville, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Charles C. Jackson, Ian Hugh Morrison (argued), Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.

Cherry Haywood, an African American woman who worked for some time at Lucent Technologies as an engineer, had consistently unfavorable performance reviews. After a tense encounter with a supervisor, Lucent fired her. Convinced that it had done so for racially discriminatory reasons and in retaliation for an earlier complaint, Haywood sued Lucent under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq. To...

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