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Schreiner v. Caterpillar, Inc.

Area supervisor's gender-related comments were not admissible as evidence of discrimination where other supervisors had decisionmaking authority regarding female employee's eligibility for step pay increases.

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RIPPLE, Circuit Judge. Nina Schreinersued her employer, Caterpillar, Inc., forsex discrimination and sexual harassmentunder Title VII of the Civil Rights Actof 1964, 42 U.S.C. sec. 2000e et seq. Thedistrict court granted summary judgmentin favor of Caterpillar on the sexualharassment claim. The sex discriminationclaim was tried to a jury, which found infavor of Caterpillar. Focusing solely onthe discrimination count on which thejury returned a verdict in favor ofCaterpillar, Ms. Schreiner now seeksreview of the district court’s ruling ona motion in limine that excluded evidenceof a supervisor’s derogatory commentsabout women. For the reasons set forth inthe following opinion, we affirm thejudgment of the district court.

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