Legal Opinion
John W. PFEIFFER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WM. WRIGLEY JR. COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 14, 1985No. 83-2935PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The question for decision is whether the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 621 et seq., before it was amended in 1984, had any extraterritorial reach.
The plaintiff, John Pfeiffer, was hired in 1974 in Chicago by Wm. Wrigley Co. to be the company’s Director for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. In 1978 he was put on the rolls of Wrigley’s wholly owned German subsidiary, Deutsche Wrigley GmbH, where he continued to do the same type of work as before out of his office and home, both of which were in Munich. He was let go in 1983 when he turned 65, and…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Lorillard v. PonsSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Griffith v. United Air Lines, Inc.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1964
- Foley Bros., Inc. v. FilardoSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- In the Matter of Gerald Lewis Tarnow, Debtor. Appeal of Commodity Credit CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
- Vermilya-Brown Co. v. ConnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
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3Cited by42 opinions
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- Wolf v. J.I. Case Co.District Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1985
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