ORTIZ v. WERNER ENTERPRISES, INC.

No. 15-2574.

834 F.3d 760 (2016)

Henry ORTIZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WERNER ENTERPRISES, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 19, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael L. Resis , Chicago, IL, Jill A. Cheskes , for Defendant-Appellee.

Nancy A. Temple , Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.


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...

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