Case: Disability Discrimination/Retaliation (7th Cir.)

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the Trustees of Indiana University on retaliation claims under the Rehabilitation Act and Family Medical Leave Act brought by a female online instructional designer with obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder who was terminated after sending inappropriate emails to university leadership, finding that despite the district court’s application of an incorrect causation standard, the evidence did not support a causal connection between her protected activities and termination.

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