Legal Opinion
Raymond Abbott v. Federal Forge, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 30, 1990No. 89-1797PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
This is an age discrimination case involving questions of disparate treatment and disparate impact. When Federal Forge, Inc. learned that former employees of one of its closed plants were demanding seniority pension benefits if they were rehired, it imposed a moratorium on any hiring of those workers. Raymond Abbott and 35 other former employees sued, charging that the moratorium amounted to a refusal to hire on the basis of age, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. § 621, et seq., because the workers affected by the moratorium…
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