Legal Opinion
Puetz Motor Sales, Inc. v. Labor & Industry Review Commission
Court of Appeals of Wisconsin
Decided September 4, 1985No. 84-1967PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, P.J.
Puetz Motor Sales, Inc. appeals from the Labor and Industry Review Commission’s finding, affirmed by the circuit court for Manitowoc county, that Puetz discriminated against Donald J. Manz on the basis of his age when it discharged him in 1980. Because substantial evidence supports the commission’s decision and the circuit court correctly found age to be a “determining factor” in Puetz’s decision, we affirm.
Manz was employed by Puetz, a Ford dealership in Kiel, Wisconsin, from October 1962 until he was discharged in November 1980. At that time, Manz was fifty-two years old and had been…
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