United States Seventh Circuit

Plaintiff pilots' age discrimination claims, alleging defendant airline refused to allow them to downgrade to flight officer status after reaching the maximum pilot age under FAA regulations, was rejected because the Airline's "up or out" policy was an implied term of the collective bargaining agreement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/29/2004
• Published 06/29/2004

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan M. Serwer (submitted), Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Columbus R. Gangemi, Jr., Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.