In 2009, an Arizona fire department laid off its two oldest firefighters. John Guido, 46, and Dennis Rankin, 54, believed their age played a role in the layoffs. But when Guido and Rankin filed an age discrimination lawsuit, the Mount Lemmon Fire District argued the men weren’t covered by federal age discrimination protections. The department …
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By unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has clarified that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act applies to all public sector employers. The case centered on two Arizona firefighters who believe they were terminated because of their age. Their fire district claimed that the wording of the ADEA excluded smaller public agencies with less than 20 …
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At RossRunkel.com today: SCOTUS: Can public sector employees skip the ADEA and sue directly under the constitution? Or should this case even be before the Supreme Court? Madigan v. Levin [Briefs at SCOTUSblog] is set for argument [this Monday] October 7. ‘Harvey Levin, a state employee, claimed he was fired because of his age. He sued his …
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Federal Employee Wins Appeal On Sex And Age Discrimination Claim Lawyers representing employees in discrimination cases are forever frustrated by federal district court judges whom routinely grant summary judgment to employers instead of allowing cases to proceed to trial for a jury determination. This recent case of Bartlett v.Gates, in which the Sixth Circuit Court of …
Hearings Held On Federal Discrimination Bill To Overturn Gross Decision Last week, both the House and Senate held hearings on the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA) (H.R. 3721, S. 1756). The legislation would overturn the awful Gross v. FBL Financials Services, Inc. case decided by the Supreme Court last year. If passed, the …
Direct Evidence Of Age Discrimination Gets Plaintiff Jury Trial: Court Wrongfully Applied Mixed Motive Standard To Bounce The Case It’s hard to believe that this age discrimination victim got thrown out of court and had to go to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for a reversal but here’s what happened in the recently decided …
Age Discrimination Plaintiff Gets Great Decision From Court of Appeals It looks like a typical age discrimination scenario. A supervisor makes hostile remarks about older employees and expresses a preference for younger ones. An older employee with an excellent record gets fired for trumped-up reasons and a younger employee is hired to replace her. What …
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It would have been hard to miss the heartwarming story last week about Susan Boyle’s performance on the British version of American Idol called Britain’s Got Talent. The New York Times and CBS News have extensively covered it as have most of the other media outlets. The episode, according to the Times, has provoked a …
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Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
