Legal Opinion
Vaughan v. MetraHealth Companies, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 29, 1998No. 96-2214PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Chief Judge WILKINSON wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Judge CHAMBERS joined.
OPINION
WILKINSON, Chief Judge:
Janet Vaughan brought suit against her former employer under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-34, alleging that age discrimination motivated her termination during the course of a corporate downsizing. The district court found that Vaughan had not adduced sufficient evidence that age discrimination was her employer’s real motive for terminating her to survive the employer’s motion for summary judgment. We…
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