Gacek v. American Airlines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “a discharge 13 motivated by such an injury report is a retaliatory discharge under Illinois workers’ compensation law”
• “Illinois, however, doesn't want to give plaintiffs in retaliatory discharge cases governed by state law that leg up” as in McDonnell-Douglas
• “[W]hen he [ ] first reported the injury[,] a claim file had been opened by the airline’s administrator of workers’ claims; and a discharge motivated by such an injury report is a retaliatory discharge under Illinois workers’ compensation law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).