JOHN E. MARTIN, District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on a Motion for Reconsideration [DE 38], filed by Plaintiff on June 14, 2018. Defendant filed a response on June 27, 2018. Plaintiff has not filed a reply, and the time to do so has passed.
On July 19, 2016, Plaintiff Molly Joll filed a Complaint alleging that she was discriminated against on the basis of her age and/or gender when she was not selected by Defendant for either high school coaching position for which she applied and was interviewed, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. On October 19, 2017, Defendant filed a Motion for Summary Judgment, which was granted by the Court's Opinion and Order of June 4, 2018.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59 provides for a party to file a motion to alter or amend a judgment within 28 days of its entry. A motion brought pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e) motion "must clearly establish either a manifest error of law or fact or must present newly discovered evidence." LB Credit Corp. v. Resolution Trust Corp., 49 F.3d 1263, 1267 (7th Cir. 1995) (quoting Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp. v. Meyer, 781 F.2d 1260, 1268 (7th Cir.1986)). However, Rule 59(e) motions do not give a party the opportunity to rehash old arguments or to present new arguments "that could and should have been presented to the district court prior to the judgment." Moro v. Shell Oil Co., 91 F.3d 872, 876 (7th Cir. 1996) (citing LB Credit Corp., 49 F.3d at 1267).
A motion for "[r]econsideration is not an appropriate forum for rehashing previously rejected arguments or arguing matters that could have been heard during the pendency of the previous motion." Caisse Nationale de Credit Agricole v. CBI Indus., Inc., 90 F.3d 1264, 1270 (7th Cir.1996). Instead,
Broaddus v. Shields, 665 F.3d 846, 860 (7th Cir. 2011) (overruled on other grounds by Hill v. Tangherini, 724 F.3d 965, 967 n.1 (7th Cir.2013)) (citing Bank of Waunakee v. Rochester Cheese Sales, Inc., 906 F.2d 1185, 1191 (7th Cir.1990)). "Such problems [that are appropriate for reconsideration] rarely arise and the motion to reconsider should be equally rare." Bank of Waunakee, 906 F.2d at 1191 (quoting Above the Belt, Inc. v. Mel Bohannan Roofing, Inc., 99 F.R.D. 99, 101 (E.D.Va.1983)).
Plaintiff argues that the Court overlooked or missed arguments made by Plaintiff and should therefore reconsider the judgment to correct those errors of law and fact. In particular, Plaintiff argues that the Court did not adequately address Plaintiff's argument regarding implicit bias and stereotyping, failed to consider Plaintiff's argument that one of the other coaches who was hired did not have the experience he claimed and therefore was less qualified than Plaintiff for the position he received, and overlooked Plaintiff's argument that the questions asked of Plaintiff during her interview were evidence that the hiring decision was based on her gender.
In its Opinion, the Court laid out the standard required for prevailing on gender and age discrimination claims on a motion for summary judgment using the McDonnell-Douglas burdenshifting framework. Defendant gave gender- and age-neutral reasons for its hiring decisions, so the burden shifted to Plaintiff to show that these stated reasons were mere pretext, either that the reasons were dishonest or Defendant's motive was to unlawfully discriminate. See York v. Peake, 286 F. App'x 318, 321 (7th Cir. 2008). The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has emphasized that if a defendant "honestly believed" the reasons it gave for rejecting a plaintiff's candidacy, the plaintiff cannot show pretext even if the reasons "were `mistaken, ill considered or foolish.'" Millbrook v. IBP, Inc., 280 F.3d 1169, 1175 (7th Cir. 2002) (quoting Jordan v. Summers, 205 F.3d 337, 343 (7th Cir. 2000)); see also Reed v. Lawrence Chevrolet, Inc., 108 F. App'x 393, 398 (7th Cir. 2004).
The arguments Plaintiff asserts that the Court "missed or overlooked" are all arguments that Defendant's stated reasons for not hiring Plaintiff were pretext. The Court addressed the affidavit describing the comment about Plaintiff having a dominant personality, addressed the level of experience held by Plaintiff and the two successful candidates, and addressed the interview questions asked of Plaintiff related to her schedule,
Plaintiff has failed to show that the Court misunderstood her, that new facts have been discovered, or that there has been any change in relevant law. She has not presented any information that could not have been presented in briefing the initial Motion for Summary Judgment, and has not given any reason for the Court to reconsider its previous Opinion pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59.
For the foregoing reasons, the Court hereby
So ORDERED.