Cherry Haywood v. Lucent Technologies, Incorporated

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2003-03-20

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DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge. Cherry Haywood, an African American woman who worked for some time at Lu-cent Technologies as an engineer, had consistently unfavorable performance reviews. After a tense encounter with a supervisor, Lucent fired her. Convinced that it had done so for racially discriminatory reasons and in retaliation for an earlier complaint, Haywood sued Lucent un…

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