California Court of Appeal

A jury award to plaintiff in his suit for age discrimination is reversed where the trial court applied an incorrect causation standard to defendant's allegedly unlawful age-related demotion and admitted evidence of emotional distress that should have been excluded because of the exclusivity provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/12/2004
• Published 08/12/2004

Judges

• CROSKEY, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mathews & Rager, Charles T. Mathews, Pasadena, and Jeffrey A. Rager;  Law Offices of Roxanne Huddleston and Roxanne Huddleston for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, J. Al Latham, Jr., Patricia M. Berry and Elizabeth A. Falcone, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Appellants.