Darchak v. City of Chicago Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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• observing that when an employer hires someone from the protected class to fill the position the plaintiff was not awarded, the jury must decide whether discriminatory intent motivated the hiring decision
• noting “that three to four months between a remark and an employment action is not so long as to defeat the inference of causal nexus”
• noting Illinois appellate courts have expressly refused to extend reach of retaliatory discharge tort to cover nonrenewal of fixed-term contract
• noting Illinois appellate courts have expressly refused to extend reach of retaliatory discharge tort to cover nonrenewal of fixed-term contract
• affirming award of summary judgment to Chicago Board of Education where there was “no evidence … that the Board was aware of any potential retaliatory basis for the [recommendation]” that it adopted
• noting examples of circumstantial evidence, including: suspicious timing, ambiguous oral or written statements, statistical evidence of disparate treatment, and passing over otherwise qualified candidates in hiring

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).