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Thursday, September 30, 2004
Indiana Decisions - 7th Circuit posts two
Gildon, Jermaine v. Bowen, Edwin (ND Ill.)
Before BAUER, POSNER, and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.Boyd, Moses v. IL State Police Dept (ND Ill.)
BAUER, Circuit Judge. Petitioner-Appellant, Jermaine Gildon, brought this habeas corpus claim under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 challenging his Illinois state conviction for first degree murder. The district court dismissed the petition as being untimely under the one-year period of limitations pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d). Gildon appeals. * * *Because we find that the district court did not err in dismissing Gildon’s habeas petition as untimely under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d), we do not address the merits of his claim. The decision of the district court is AFFIRMED.
Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and POSNER and WOOD, Circuit Judges.
WOOD, Circuit Judge. Plaintiffs are 18 of 51 forensic scientists (to whom we refer as the Scientists) who worked for the Chicago Police Department (CPD) crime lab until July 1996, when they were transferred en masse to the Illinois State Police (ISP). Unhappy with their salaries after the transfer, the Scientists brought suit under Title VII alleging that ISP intentionally discriminated against them in the way that it structured the salary terms for the newly absorbed group, a majority of which were members of racial or ethnic minorities. A jury found against the Scientists shortly after receiving clarifying instructions from the district court. The Scientists then filed a Rule 59 motion for a new trial, which the district court denied.On appeal, they challenge the jury instructions given by the district court as well as two other rulings. * * *
[p. 22] So: defendant wins 1; plaintiff wins 2 and 4, and 3 goes to the jury with an instruction placing the burden of proving an absence of a causal relation on the defendant.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 30, 2004 01:09 PM
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