7th Circuit Rejects Employee’s Attempt To Back Out Of Bias Settlement

Mealey's (April 14, 2020, 2:08 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on April 13 affirmed a trial court’s enforcement of a confidential settlement between a health system and an employee who brought discrimination and bias claims, finding that the employee’s oral consent while represented by counsel was sufficient to find that she entered into a binding agreement (Rashun Singleton v. Amita Health, et al., No. 19-1060, 7th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 11553)....