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Case Name
Chapman v. DaimlerChrysler Corp.
EE-IL-0318
Docket / Court
00-50250 ( N.D. Ill. )
State/Territory
Illinois
Case Type(s)
Disability Rights-Pub. Accom.
Equal Employment
Case Summary
On July 12th, 2000 eight female employees filed suit in the United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois against DaimlerChrysler Corp. All of the plaintiffs worked at DaimlerChrysler's assembly plant in Belvedere, IL. They alleged a variety of claims that varied from ...
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On July 12th, 2000 eight female employees filed suit in the United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois against DaimlerChrysler Corp. All of the plaintiffs worked at DaimlerChrysler's assembly plant in Belvedere, IL. They alleged a variety of claims that varied from plaintiff to plaintiff including age, gender, and race discrimination, and violations of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). The principle specific allegations concerned DaimlerChrysler's failure to promote and train fairly and to accommodate one plaintiff's diabetes.
Judge Philip G. Reinhard referred the case to Magistrate Judge P. Michael Mahoney who presided over discovery. As discovery progressed the configuration of the plaintiff group changed. Several plaintiffs dropped the private counsel they had jointly employed and appeared pro se. The court dismissed the complaints of several plaintiffs with prejudice for failure to prosecute when they failed to attend discovery hearings. On May 15th, 2001 four of the original plaintiffs filed an amended complaint setting out common allegations of age, race, and gender discrimination, and violations of the ADA.
On July 9th, 2001 DaimlerChrysler filed a motion to dismiss on the grounds that plaintiffs were tardy in serving the original complaint. Plaintiffs' counsel had missed the deadline by a day. The district judge (Judge Reinhard) agreed that DaimlerChrysler was correct but exercised judicial discretion and extended the deadline, and denied the motion.
Discovery continued over the next year. Several more plaintiffs were dismissed, one with and one without prejudice. Eventually individual settlements were reached with each of the remaining plaintiffs. The exact terms of these settlements are not available. The case was completely dismissed on October 29th, 2002.
Michael Perry - 06/16/2010
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Issues and Causes of Action
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Issues
Affected Gender
Female
Discrimination-area
Other Conditions of Employment (including assignment, transfer, hours, working conditions, etc)
Promotion
Training
Discrimination-basis
Age discrimination
Disability (inc. reasonable accommodations)
Race discrimination
Sex discrimination
General
Disparate Treatment
Pattern or Practice
Plaintiff Type
Private Plaintiff
Race
Black
Causes of Action
Title VII (including PDA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12111 et seq.
Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 621 et seq.
42 U.S.C. § 1981
Case Details
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Defendant(s)
DaimlerChrysler Corp.
Plaintiff Description
Female employees of DaimlerChrystler at the Belvedere Assembly Plant.
Class action status sought
Yes
Class action status granted
No
Prevailing Party
Mixed
Public Int. Lawyer
No
Nature of Relief
Unknown
Source of Relief
Settlement
Form of Settlement
Private Settlement Agreement
Case Closing Year
2002
Case Ongoing
No
Additional Resources
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Microsoft Gender Discrimination Class Action Lawsuit
Date: Oct. 14, 2016
By: Outten & Golden
[ Detail ]
[ External Link ]
Age Discrimination Class Action seeks Fair Employment for Older PwC Applicants
http://www.pwcagecase.com/
Date: Apr. 27, 2016
By: Outten & Golden
[ Detail ]
[ External Link ]
Smith Barney Gender Discrimination
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/employment/smith-barney/
Date: August 2008
By: Outten & Golden
[ Detail ]
[ External Link ]
Megacases, Diversity, and the Elusive Goal of Workplace Reform
Date: Mar. 1, 2008
By: Nancy Levit (University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law Faculty)
Citation: 49 B.C. L. Rev. 367 (2008)
[ Detail ]
[ External Link ]
Second Generation Employment Discrimination: A Structural Approach
Date: Apr. 1, 2001
By: Susan Sturm (Columbia Law School Faculty)
Citation: 101 Colum. L. Rev. 458 (2001)
[ Detail ]
[ External Link ]
Documents
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Docket(s)
3:00−cv−50250
(N.D. Ill.)
EE-IL-0318-9000.pdf
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Detail
Date: 10/29/2002
Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records]
General Documents
Amended Complaint
EE-IL-0318-0001.pdf
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Detail
Date: 05/15/2001
Source: Westlaw
Memorandum Opinion and Order (Denying defendant's motions to dismiss)
(2001 WL 908952) (N.D. Ill.)
EE-IL-0318-0002.pdf
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WESTLAW
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Detail
Date: 07/26/2001
Source: Westlaw
People
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Judges
Mahoney, P. Michael
(N.D. Ill.) [Magistrate]
EE-IL-0318-0001 | EE-IL-0318-9000 | EE-IL-0318-9000 | EE-IL-0318-9000
Reinhard, Philip Godfrey
(N.D. Ill.)
EE-IL-0318-0001 | EE-IL-0318-0002 | EE-IL-0318-9000
Plaintiff's Lawyers
Crawley, Carolyn
(Illinois)
EE-IL-0318-9000
Garrett, Tina
(Illinois)
EE-IL-0318-9000
Hernandez, Rene
(Illinois)
EE-IL-0318-9000
Nunnery, Willie J.
(Wisconsin)
EE-IL-0318-9000
Sharp, Robert
(Illinois)
EE-IL-0318-0001 | EE-IL-0318-9000
Defendant's Lawyers
Balogh, Stephen E.
(Illinois)
EE-IL-0318-9000
Haggestad, Troy E.
(Illinois)
EE-IL-0318-9000
Holevas, John James
(Illinois)
EE-IL-0318-9000
Maher, Brendan A.
(Illinois)
EE-IL-0318-9000
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