Legal Opinion

Mary Haas v. Montgomery Ward and Company

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided March 5, 1987No. 85-1696PublishedCited by 31 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

In this diversity action, plaintiff Mary Haas contends that her employer, Montgomery Ward and Company, discriminated against her on the basis of age, wrongfully *1016discharged her and negligently wrongfully discharged her when the company consolidated its catalogue and customer accommodation center. Haas claims that she was dismissed and a woman twenty years younger than she was retained to manage the new consolidated department because the younger woman had a social relationship with the supervisors. In addition, Haas maintains that her low performance evaluation was based…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Toussaint v. Blue Cross & Blue ShieldMichigan Supreme Court · 1980
  2. Kewin v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance CompanyMichigan Supreme Court · 1980
  3. Hart v. LudwigMichigan Supreme Court · 1956
  4. Schipani v. Ford Motor Co.Michigan Court of Appeals · 1981
  5. Valentine v. General American Credit, IncMichigan Supreme Court · 1985

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3Cited by31 opinions

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  2. Donald R. Brock, Clinical Biotest Laboratories, Inc., a Michigan Corporation v. Consolidated Biomedical Laboratories, a Delaware CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1987
  3. Arthur Taylor v. General Motors Corporation and Metropolitan Life Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1987
  4. Donn E. Rush v. United Technologies, Otis Elevator DivisionCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1991
  5. Mann v. J.E. Baker Co.District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1990

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