Case: Discrimination/Race Discrimination (N.D. Ill.)

An Illinois federal court granted summary judgment to the Chicago Board of Education on the claims of a Black JROTC instructor and football coach that he faced disparate treatment, including discharge, due to his race, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and state law, ruling that the instructor couldn’t provide adequate comparator evidence of disparate treatment, and that there was no evidence of racially discriminatory pretext in the school district’s discharge explanation.