United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit against American Airlines under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where: 1) a collective bargaining agreement did not require that plaintiffs be offered positions of comparable pay past the retirement age; 2) a claim, that a supplement to the collective bargaining agreement governing the retirement of flight engineers was facially discriminatory, was not properly raised before the EEOC.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/07/2007
• Decided 05/05/2008
• Published 05/05/2008

Judges

• WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, WOOD, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John S. Bishof, Jr. (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Cheryl Tama Oblander, Cardelle B. Spangler (argued), Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.