Legal Opinion
Lightfoot v. Union Carbide Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 27, 1997No. Nos. 1710, 1881, Dockets 95-9206(L), 95-9258(XAP)PublishedCited by 492 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff appeals from an order entered May 12, 1994 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Patterson, J.) granting summary judgment to defendants, dismissing all but one of plaintiffs claims. .Defendants cross-appeal, attacking the verdict as against the weight of the evidence and the entire trial as fundamentally unfair.
BACKGROUND
Plaintiff Richard Lightfoot was hired by defendant Union Carbide in 1959 as a chemical engineer in Carbide’s Charleston, West Virginia facility. Over the following thirty-three years Lightfoot advanced…
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