United States Seventh Circuit

The FAA has the discretionary power to establish a rigid policy, granting no exemptions until satisfied that medical standards can demonstrate an absence of risk factors in an individual sufficient to warrant a more liberal exemption policy from the Age Sixty Rule.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/07/2001
• Decided 08/14/2001
• Published 08/14/2001

Judges

• FLAUM, Chief Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and RIPPLE and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan M. Serwer (argued), Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, IL, for petitioner, Eugene B. Granof, Air Line Pilots Association, Herndon, VA, for amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christine N. Kohl (argued), Department of Justice Civil Division, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., Jane Garvey, Federal Aviation Administration, Washington D.C., for respondent.