Legal Opinion
James Pierson v. Quad/Graphics Printing Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 18, 2014No. 13-5784PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.
James Pierson, a Plant Facilities Manager at the Dickson, Tennessee plant of QG, LLC (“QG”), was terminated after the CEO announced a comprehensive compa ny-wide cost-cutting initiative. After he was fired, his job duties were assumed by a substantially younger employee engaged in energy-procurement and capital-projects management functions who had been based at another facility. Pierson argues that QG discriminated against him on the basis of age when it replaced him with a younger individual who was less qualified to perform his job functions. QG, on…
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