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The Politics Of Reversal: The Seventh Circuit Reins In A District Court Judge’S Wayward Employment Discrimination Decisions, Timothy Wright

Seventh Circuit Review

In the span of four months, the Seventh Circuit reversed the same district court judge, Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, in three separate employment discrimination opinions. In all three cases, the district court had granted the employers’ motions for summary judgment in their entirety. However, the Seventh Circuit held that the majority of these rulings were improper due to the district judge’s inattention to critical details in the record and his misplaced reliance on minor technical rulings that sidestepped the cases’ glaring issues of credibility and contested fact. This Comment reviews the common themes in the Seventh Circuit’s criticisms of the district …