Legal Opinion
Coleman v. Quaker Oats Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 20, 2000No. Nos. 99-15885 to 99-15887PublishedCited by 958 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge O’SCANNLAIN; Dissent by Judge BETTY B. FLETCHER.
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether former employees have raised a genuine issue of material fact as to whether they were illegally fired because of age.
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Jerry Jeney (“Jeney”), Joseph Gentile (“Gentile”) and Perry Coleman (“Coleman”), along with hundreds of other employees nationwide, were laid off by the Quaker Oats Company (“Quaker”) in Arizona during a series of reductions-in-force (“RIFs”) from 1994 to 1995.
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Jeney, a 55-year-old white male,1 began working for Quaker in 1987 after it had purchased the company…
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