Barber v. Shaw Group, Inc.

PER CURIAM: *

Pursuant to a consulting company’s recommendation that Shaw Group, Inc. (Shaw) reduce personnel by approximately 30 percent, Eugene Barber was laid off from his position as a pipefitter. Barber filed this action, raising state and federal age-discrimination claims and state breach-of-contract and abuse-of-rights claims. The district court granted Shaw’s summary-judgment motion, dismissing the federal age-discrimination claim with prejudice, the state-law claims without prejudice.

The federal age-discrimination claim is the only subject of this appeal. In contesting the summary…