Ciarlante v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.

OPINION. OF THE COURT

GARTH, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to decide whether the district court properly granted summary judgment to the plaintiff class against the defendants. The district court held as a matter of law that the defendants’ Chester, Virginia administrative center was the plaintiffs’ “single site of employment” under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, 29 U.S.C. § 2101(a)(3)(B), and therefore awarded damages and attorneys’ fees to the plaintiffs. We hold that a genuine issue exists as to whether the Chester center was the plaintiffs’ “single site of…