Mehra v. Guaranty Bank
Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Acting pro se, Nilima Mehra filed a complaint in federal court claiming that her former employer Guaranty Bank fired her because she is Indian, over fifty years of age, and suffers from depression. Guaranty rejoined with a motion for summary judgment alleging that in the Spring of 1999 Mehra began exhibiting bizarre and perhaps paranoid behavior. For example, she telephoned Fred Krenzke, Guaranty’s Director of Security, and informed him that her ex-husband had bugged her phones, was trying to harm her, and had killed their daughter, who had died in 1995. After some investigation, Krenzke concluded that Mehra’s fears were unfounded. Then in March 1999, Mehra accused another employee of hitting her in the back while they were working alone at the bank. Krenzke reviewed the bank’s security videotapes and reported to Guaranty personnel officials that Mehra’s accusation was false. Repeated incidents such as these, claimed Guaranty, along with other factors more mundane—like Mehra’s history of tardiness, difficulty getting along with co-workers, and relatively low productivity—led to her eventual termination.
Mehra did not contest most of Guaranty’s assertions despite a warning included in Guaranty’s motion that she must respond lest the assertions be taken as fact. See Lewis v. Faulkner, 689 F.2d 100 (7th Cir. 1982). Relying on the uncontested assertions and presiding with the parties’ consent, see 28 U.S.C. § 636(c), Magistrate Judge William Callahan granted summary judgment for the bank. Regarding Mehra’s age-discrimination claim, the judge
Mehra appeals, but her appellate brief consists primarily of irrelevant commentary and rhetorical questions like ‘Why does Federal Courts [sic] believe Guaranty Bank? Why am I not BELIEVABLE?” Notably absent are citations to case law and cogent legal argument. Indeed, Mehra provides us no reason to disturb Judge Callahan’s considered judgment beyond her oft-stated belief that Guaranty is “covering up the whole incident and creating stories to justify the reasoning when in reality the TRUTH is else.” Even pro se litigants must articulate some claim of error in the dispositions they ask us to review, see Fed. R.App. P. 28; Anderson v. Hardman, 241 F.3d 544, 545 (7th Cir. 2001) (collecting cases); failure to do so results in dismissal of the appeal.
DISMISSED.
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- Nilima MEHRA v. GUARANTY BANK
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