Dwight D. Myricks v. Federal Reserve Bank of Atl.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
The main issue in this appeal is whether there is a genuine issue of material fact that Dwight Myricks voluntarily and knowingly waived his pending claim of employment discrimination against the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta when he signed a severance agreement and general release to receive enhanced retirement benefits. Myricks is educated, was represented by an attorney, and had been given 60 days to consider the severance agreement, and the Bank had explained to Myr-icks’s attorney that the severance agreement would release Myricks’s pending claim. Myricks had…
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