Legal Opinion
Earl HOLLEY, Appellee, v. SANYO MANUFACTURING, INC., Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 30, 1985No. 84-2303PublishedCited by 176 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Sanyo Manufacturing, Inc. appeals a judgment entered for Earl Holley on a jury verdict of willful discrimination in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-634 (1982). Holley was discharged in 1982 when Sanyo instituted a plant-wide reduction-in-force at its Forrest City, Arkansas location and combined Holley’s position with that of a younger man. We hold that since Holley offered no evidence of age discrimination beyond these facts, he did not make his case under the statute. Therefore, we reverse.
In 1979, Earl Holley went to work…
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