Legal Opinion
Merwin Moskowitz v. Trustees of Purdue University and Purdue University
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 22, 1993No. 93-1349PublishedCited by 121 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, Merwin Moskowitz, a tenured professor of biology at Purdue University, was forced to retire in 1991 upon reaching the age of seventy, the age at which the Age Discrimination in Employment Act permits mandatory retirement of professors. He nevertheless filed this suit under the Act, charging that the university had discriminated unlawfully against him on account of his age by denying him research funds and facilities and travel grants before his retirement. These resources, he argues, would have given him post-retirement income and it is that lost…
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