Legal Opinion
Richard Thorn and Pat Curran v. Sundstrand Aerospace Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 20, 2000No. 99-1192PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Thorn and Curran brought suit against Sundstrand Corporation under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 621 et seq. The claims of the two plaintiffs have little in common; though both plaintiffs were “riffed” (that is, laid off pursuant to a reduction in force (RIF)) in 1993, they worked at very different jobs in different departments of Sundstrand’s aerospace division and under different supervisors. These are really two separate cases. The district court granted summary judgment for Sundst-rand in both. As the plaintiffs point out, the district court’s…
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