LaChapelle v. Owens-Illinois, Inc.

This is an interlocutory appeal1 taken from an order of the district court dismissing Appellant LaChapelle’s class action claim in an age discrimination suit. The appeal presents for decision a single, well defined question of law. This is whether suits brought under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 2 may be Rule 23 3-type class actions. We conclude that they may not and, therefore, affirm the decision below.

Section 7(b) of ADEA4 directs that “The provisions of this Chapter shall be enforced in accordance with the powers, remedies, and procedures provided in Sections 211(b),…