Legal Opinion
Rodriguez v. Taylor
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 27, 1977No. Nos. 76-2609-76-2611PublishedCited by 274 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal raises diverse issues resulting from a district court award of back pay, liquidated damages and attorneys’ fees to a plaintiff who successfully proved that the City of Philadelphia violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-634 (1970 & Supp. IV 1974) (ADEA). We affirm in part and reverse in part the district court’s award of monetary relief and attorneys’ fees.
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Plaintiff, Luis Rodriguez, then age 46, applied on December 23,1974, to the City of Philadelphia to take the competitive Civil Service…
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