Legal Opinion
Alvin Joel TYLER, Plaintiff-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 10, 1992No. 733, 920, Dockets 91-7908, 91-7918PublishedCited by 308 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:
Twenty-two-year-old Alvin Joel Tyler went to work for Bethlehem Steel Corporation on July 5, 1960. After 26 years of service, Bethlehem on July 10, 1986, fired him, or as the corporation put it, placed him on “permanent layoff”. In this diversity case brought under New York’s Human Rights Law, N.Y.Exec.Law §§ 290-301 (McKinney 1982 & Supp.1992), a jury awarded Tyler $995,000 in damages for age discrimination.
On appeal, Bethlehem claims that the jury’s verdict was against the weight of the evidence, that the district court improperly allocated the burdens of…
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