United States Seventh Circuit

Plaintiff failed to demonstrate that employer's reduction-in-force termination was pretextual age discrimination where the testimony by company employee, standing alone, did not show that evaluations of older employees were distorted so that they could be fired.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/08/2001
• Decided 05/11/2001
• Published 05/11/2001

Judges

• MANION, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Timothy G. Hagan (argued), Mt. Clemens, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Grady B. Murdock, Jr. (argued), Neal & Associates, Benjamin Ghess, Ameritech Corporation, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.