Patricia Rogers v. City of Chicago, an Illinois Municipal Corporation

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• holding that a manager’s allegedly discriminatory comments, who had input on hiring decisions but no actual hiring authority, did not amount to direct evidence of pregnancy discrimination
• holding that a manager’s allegedly discriminatory comments, who had input on hiring decisions but no actual hiring authority, did not amount to direct evidence of pregnancy discrimination
• explaining that “[a] decisionmaker is the person responsible for the contested decision” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that since there was no evidence that the decisionmaker “rubber-stamped” an alleged harasser’s recommendation in placing her in a special program, the alleged harasser could not be considered the true decisionmaker
• stating that “[a] decision-maker is the person responsible for the contested decision”
• stating that, “[i]n the absence of Rogers’s attempt to show prejudice, we decline, for that reason alone, to disturb the district court’s judgment on the basis of its evidentiary rulings”

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