United States Second Circuit

While the district court erroneously concluded that plaintiff airline pilots did not meet their prima facie burden of proof in age discrimination suit, summary judgment for defendant was appropriate where plaintiffs adduced no evidence that defendant's legitimate non-discriminatory explanations for each of the challenged employment terms were false.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/13/2001
• Published 02/13/2001

Judges

• McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:, Before KEARSE, McLAUGHLIN, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edward J.M. Little,Zuckerman, Spaeder, Goldstein, Taylor & Kolker, L.L.P., New York, NY, (William B. Fleming, Michael J. Ramos, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• William H. Boice, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, GA, (Stephen E. Hudson, of counsel;  Thomas C. French, Law Department, Delta Air Lines, Inc., of counsel), for Defendant-Appellee Delta Air Lines, Inc.