District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiff was a corrections officer who sued the defendants in the U.S.

In fact, the comment was a central piece of evidence in the case … and led to the plaintiff being hit with thousands of dollars in sanctions. Why did the Court include the plaintiff’s Facebook comment in the opinion? Because the comment was made while the employment discrimination suit was pending. Instead, the emoji was part of a comment the plaintiff had made on Facebook and the Court was quoting the comment in its opinion. Now let’s be fair and point out the 7th Circuit did not use the poop emoji the same way we might use it when texting a friend or posting on social media.

Rather, the 7th Circuit is being recognized in Emerson v Dart as the first federal Circuit Court to include a “poop” emoji in a published opinion. Circuit Court of Appeals is making headlines for its recent ruling in an employment discrimination case, although probably not for the reason the Court would like: its decision.

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