Legal Opinion
Turlington v. Atlanta Gas Light Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 26, 1998No. 97-8071PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVTTCH, Senior Circuit Judge:
This case raises two important issues regarding the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (“ADEA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-34: the timing requirements for filing discrimination charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) and the standard for awarding attorney’s fees to prevailing defendants.
Plaintiffs-appellants Billy Joe Turlington (“Turlington”) and his wife, Ellen Jocile Tur-lington (“Mrs. Turlington”), sued the Atlanta Gas Light Company (“AGL”) and two AGL employees, Randy Curry and Robert Miller, alleging, inter alia, that AGL…
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