Legal Opinion
Burns v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 27, 1982No. 79 Civ. 4726(MEL)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LASKER, District Judge.
This case arises out of a large scale staff reduction undertaken by defendant Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (“Equitable”) in 1978 and 1979, in which over five hundred employees were terminated, approximately 360 of whom were over forty years old. The complaint in this action was filed in September, 1979, by Kay Burns and the other named plaintiffs, charging violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq. (“ADEA”). Over one hundred of Equitable’s former employees have opted to join the action, 1 as allowed…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Rogers v. Exxon Research & Engineering Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1977
- Charles D. REICH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DOW BADISCHE COMPANY and Dow Chemical Company, Defendants-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
3Cited by3 opinions
- 30 Fair empl.prac.cas. 873, 30 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 33,214 Kay Burns v. The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, Eugene J. Goss v. The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1982
- Verschuuren v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1983
- Burns v. Equitable Life Assurance SocietyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1982