Legal Opinion
Dale BRAMBLE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION, AFL-CIO, PROVIDENCE LOCAL, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 27, 1998No. 97-1683PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Chief Judge.
Dale F. Bramble sued his employer, the American Postal Workers, AFL-CIO, Providence, Rhode Island Area Local, (the “Union”) under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (“ADEA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-34, in the Federal District Court of Rhode Island. He alleges that the Union discriminated against him on the basis of his age when it adopted a new salary structure for his office of Local Union President, effectively eliminating his salary. Bramble brought this suit under both a disparate treatment and a disparate impact theory of recovery. The district court…
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