Legal Opinion
Charles G. Criswell Eugene R. Black v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 6, 1989No. 87-5771PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
INTRODUCTION
CANBY, Circuit Judge:
This action had its genesis more than ten years ago when pilot Charles Criswell, and two other plaintiffs, were forced to retire at age 60 by Western Air Lines (“Western”). A jury found that Western had violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-34, when it (1) refused to allow DC-10 captains nearing the age of sixty to down-bid to the position of second officers (flight engineers), and (2) imposed a mandatory retirement age of sixty on second officers as a matter of company policy. Criswell v. Western Air Lines, Inc., 614 F.Supp. 384…
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