Legal Opinion
Lefevers v. GAF Fiberglass Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 27, 2012No. 00-5667PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge.
George Lefevers appeals the dismissal of his age discrimination suit. As Tolstóy wrote, “We do not beat the Wolf for being gray, but for eating the sheep.”1 Lefevers has failed to show that age discrimination, rather than his poor performance, motivated his termination. For the reasons that follow, we AFFIRM.
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Lefevers was terminated from his job as shift supervisor at GAF Fiberglass Corporation’s Nashville plant in August 1998. He was fifty-eight years old at the time of his termination. He claims that he was terminated because of his age, in…
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