Legal Opinion
Allen v. Marshall Field & Co.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided January 27, 1982No. 81 C 5811PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
WILL, District Judge.
Four former employees of Marshall Field & Company (Marshall Field), have filed this “statutory class action” against their former employer pursuant to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-34. They allege that since January 1, 1977, when Angelo Arena became president of Marshall Field, the defendant has maintained a policy of discharging or demoting its older management-level employees for fictitious reasons, or forcing them into early retirement by placing or threatening to place them in lower paying or dead-end jobs.…
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