Legal Opinion
Dorothy CURTIS, Plaintiff/Appellee, v. ELECTRONICS & SPACE CORPORATION, Defendant/Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 28, 1997No. 96-3169PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
A jury found that the Electronics & Space Corporation (ESC) willfully discriminated against Dorothy Curtis on the basis of her age in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-634 (1997), and awarded her back pay and liquidated damages. The district court 1 then added front pay and attorney fees. ESC appeals from the judgments. We affirm.
Dorothy Curtis was fired from her job in the administrative services department of ESC in 1991, when she was 63 years old. ESC was reducing its workforce, and the manager of the department, Cathy…
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