Corina Bass v. Joliet Public School District No . 86

NONPRECEDENTIAL DISPOSITION
To be cited only in accordance with Fed. R. App. P. 32.1
United States Court of Appeals
For the Seventh Circuit
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Decided April 11, 2014
Before
DIANE P. WOOD, Chief Judge
JOEL M. FLAUM, Circuit Judge
JOHN DANIEL TINDER, Circuit Judge
No. 13‐1742
C ORINA BASS,
Plaintiff‐Appellant,
v.
J OLIET P UBLIC SCHOOL D ISTRICT NO . 86,
Defendant‐Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District
Court for the Northern District of
Illinois, Eastern Division.
No. 11 C 8136
John W. Darrah,
Judge.
O R D E R
On March 26, 2014, we issued our opinion affirming the district court’s judgment
dismissing appellant Corina Bass’s challenge to a grant of summary judgment in favor
of the defendant Joliet Public School District No. 86. We found so little merit in the
arguments that Bass raised on appeal that we issued an order to show cause to her

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attorney pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 38. In that order, we asked
the attorney to explain why he should not be sanctioned for bringing a frivolous appeal.
The attorney, Steven H. Jesser, filed a timely response to our order. In his response, he
acknowledges that this case lay close to the line, but he states that he believed in good
faith that his client’s case was not sanctionably frivolous. He notes in this connection
that his review of the record indicated that she was treated differently, and less
favorably, than a comparable male employee of the district. Finally, he apologizes to the
court for any miscalculation he may have made.
We are satisfied from his explanation that sanctions would be inappropriate in this
situation. We therefore D ISCHARGE the rule to show cause and we instruct the Clerk of
this court to forward a copy of this order to Illinois’s Attorney Registration and
Disciplinary Commission, so that its file will contain a complete and accurate record of
the disposition of the order in this court.

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