7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: Sylvester Wince v. CBRE, Inc.
Case No.: 22-1593
Officials: Sykes, Chief Judge, and Wood and Scudder, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Employment-Racial Discrimination
In 2001, Wince began work as a maintenance mechanic in the facilities department at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Initially, he worked as an employee of the Hospital, but in 2010 Northwestern decided to contract with an outside firm to provide these services; it chose CBRE. Wince worked for almost two decades maintaining buildings and repairing equipment at Northwestern. Wince, who is Black, argues that his employer, CBRE, Inc., racially discriminated against him and then constructively discharged him. But at the summary judgment stage, Wince had to back up these serious allegations with evidence but he failed to do so.
Affirmed.
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