In Re Airline "Age of Employee" Employment Practices Litigation

OPINION AND ORDER

Before MURRAY I. GURFEIN * , Chairman, and ANDREW A. CAFFREY, ROY W. HARPER, CHARLES R. WEINER, EDWARD S. NORTHROP, and ROBERT H. SCHNACKE, Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.

This litigation presently consists of twelve actions pending in three districts: nine actions in the Northern District of Illinois, two actions in the Southern District of New York, and one action in the District of Minnesota.

In April, 1978, Congress amended the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq., and thereby deleted the provision which exempted from the Act’s prohibition…