Donald Snyder v. Pierre's French Ice Cream Co.

MARTHA CRAIG DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.

At the time the controversy in this case arose in the summer of 2010, plaintiff Donald Snyder was a 59-year-old former union employee of defendant Pierre’s French Ice Cream Company. In October 2011, Snyder brought two claims against Pierre’s under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (AD EA), 29 U.S.C. § 623(a)(1): a disparate-treatment claim and a hostile-work-environment claim. In his disparate-treatment claim, Snyder challenged the company’s recall decisions following a set of layoffs, alleging that Pierre’s decision to depart from its practice of…