MacEachern v. Rockwell International Corp.

MORRIS, Chief Judge.

The facts in this case are essentially undisputed. The affidavits filed in support of the parties’ motions for summary judgment establish that in August or September of 1975, William R. Decker, Assistant Personnel Manager at Rockwell during the time in question, talked with William J. McCombie, then an agent of plaintiff, concerning Rockwell’s need for a “systems analyst”. Decker’s affidavit indicated that he described Rockwell’s needs as follows:

“4. I discussed with Mr. McCombie the fact that we needed someone with working knowledge of computer programming languages,…