United States Fourth Circuit

In laying off plaintiffs as part of a reduction in force, the Commander of the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases acted on his skills-based assessment that their positions had become less critical to the agency's mission; such an exercise of managerial discretion is entirely legitimate under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/20/2004
• Published 02/20/2004

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rosemary Agnes McDermott, Attorney at Law Rosemary A. McDermott, Thurmont, Maryland, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas Frank Corcoran, Assistant United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee., Thomas M. DiBiagio, United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.