Sogg v. American Airlines Inc.

I join my colleagues in affirming that portion of the judgment appealed from which awarded a recovery of $4,293 for a discriminatory denial of promotion to the position of General Manager of LaGuardia Airport, where the job was awarded in March 1984 to an arguably less qualified younger male, and the jury, on conflicting proof, was free to resolve the question in plaintiff’s favor. I part company with them on affirmance of the balance of the judgment based on alleged discriminatory discharge in January 1985, and would remand for a new trial upon the single issue of disability discrimination.

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