Legal Opinion
Atkins v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 22, 1992No. 91-3179MNPublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
Appellant pilots appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment against them on various age discrimination claims relating to Northwest Airlines, Inc.’s pension plan. The district court1 found that Northwest’s pilot pension plan did not violate statutory prohibitions on age discrimination in pension accrual. We affirm.
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Appellants are seventeen current or retired Northwest pilots who worked past the airline’s normal retirement age of sixty as flight engineers. The Federal Aviation Administration bars airlines from employing persons over the age of sixty as captains…
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- Columbo A. Bencivenga and Adeline Bencivenga v. The Western Pennsylvania Teamsters and Employers Pension Fund, and the Trustees ThereofCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1985
- Amato v. Western Union International, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1985
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