Legal Opinion
Donald Rickard v. Swedish Match North America
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 2, 2014No. 13-3729PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, Chief Judge.
Donald Rickard sued his employer, Swedish Match North America, Inc. (Swedish Match), under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq., and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. The district court 1 granted summary judgment in favor of Swedish Match, and Rickard appeals. With appellate jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Rickard worked for Swedish Match and its predecessors in a sales position from 1984 until 2011, when he retired at age fifty-five. In 2007,…
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