Legal Opinion
Freeman v. Package Machinery Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 22, 1988No. 88-1130PublishedCited by 162 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
An Oriental philosopher once wrote that the business of a faithful retainer comprises “discharging loyal service to his master ... and, with due consideration of his own position, ... devoting himself to duty above all.” Yamaga Soko, The Way of the Samurai (1680). According to plaintiff-ap-pellee Iver J. Freeman, he had been an allegiant myrmidon after this fashion, yet defendant-appellant Package Machinery Company (PMC) had repaid his steadfastness with the cruelest ingratitude: banishment. Freeman sued, claiming that his employer had fired him on the basis of age…
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