United States Fourth Circuit

District court erred in granting summary judgment to defendant-employer in this ADEA action. The evidence does not conclusively show that the employee would have been terminated had his age not been considered.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/08/2004
• Published 04/08/2004

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, MICHAEL, Circuit Judge, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Susan Lisabeth Starr, Appellate Services Division, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Charles Scott Hirsch, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, L.L.P., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:Eric S. Dreiband, General, Vincent J. Blackwood, Assistant General, Carolyn L. Wheeler, Acting Associate General, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.