Legal Opinion
Edward C. Smith v. Borough of Wilkinsburg
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 17, 1998No. 97-3133PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.
Edward C. Smith, former Manager of the Borough of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, brought suit against the Borough alleging that it had failed to renew his employment contract on the basis of his age. At the close of the trial, the district court refused his request to instruct the jury that it could infer intentional discrimination if it disbelieved the Borough’s asserted reasons for not renewing Smith’s contract. Smith appeals from the judgment entered on the jury’s adverse verdict, and seeks a new trial, claiming that the district court committed…
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