7th Circ. Backs Ex-CTA Worker's Sanction Over Deleted Chats

By Celeste Bott ( July 29, 2025, 5:36 PM EDT) -- The Seventh Circuit has affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a former Chicago Transit Authority employee's retaliation lawsuit as a sanction for spoiling evidence, saying his explanation about how electronic phone messages were deleted changed over time and concluding that he wasn't entitled to an evidentiary hearing or jury review....

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