Legal Opinion
James T. Corrigan v. United States Steel Corporation Kobe Steel, Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 5, 2007No. 05-4625PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RYAN, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs, James T. Corrigan and William Watterson, are former nonunion steel industry employees. After the two men retired, they sued United States Steel Corp. (U.S.Steel) and Kobe Steel, Ltd., claiming entitlement to increased retirement benefits and damages for age discrimination. Neither defendant was ever the plaintiffs’ direct employer. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants, holding that on both claim® — -retirement benefits and age discrimination — the plaintiffs, to survive summary judgment, had to demonstrate that they were…
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