William Schechner v. Kpix-Tv

OPINION

B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs William Schechner and John Lobertini were television news reporters at KPIX-TV, one of the two San Francisco affiliates of CBS Broadcasting, Inc. 1 They were laid off after CBS issued a directive requiring each of its affiliates to reduce its annual budget by ten percent. Schechner and Lobertini were sixty-six and forty-seven years old, respectively, when they lost their jobs. They brought suit alleging that KPIX discriminated against them on the basis of age and gender, in violation of California law. The district court granted KPIX’s motion for…