Legal Opinion
Donald H. GONSALVES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CATERPILLAR TRACTOR COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 24, 1980No. 80-1615PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
This case involves plaintiff Gonsalves’s appeal from a district court ruling that granted defendant Caterpillar Tractor Company’s (Caterpillar’s) motion for summary judgment and dismissed Gonsalves’s claim that Caterpillar violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), Pub.L.No. 90-202, 81 Stat. 602 (1967), 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq., when it terminated his employment in 1977 by involuntary retirement at the age of fifty-nine. The sole issue before us is whether ADEA as it stood in 1977 permitted an employer discretion to involuntarily…
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- Braunstein v. CommissionerSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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- Brennan v. Taft Broadcasting Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
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- Allen v. Colgate-Palmolive Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1981
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