Legal Opinion
Cline v. BWXT Y-12, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 1, 2008No. 07-5639PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Royal Cline challenges a decision rejecting his state-law, age-discrimination claims as a matter of law. One of Cline’s claims is barred by the statute of limitations, and another claim fails because the company offered a nondiscriminatory, non-pretextual reason for its decision. But a third claim, based on retaliation, deserves further consideration because a reasonable jury could infer that the company had knowledge of this lawsuit and took an adverse employment action because of it.
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Born in 1943, Cline worked for 31 years as a government contractor at United…
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