Legal Opinion
Cariglia v. Hertz Equipment Rental Corp.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 5, 2004No. 02-2199PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to explore an important question related to corporate liability in an age discrimination case: whether a corporation can be held liable for discrimination when neutral decision-makers, free of any age-based animus, rely on information that is manipulated by another employee who harbors age-based discriminatory animus.
Here, the plaintiff, John Cariglia, brought suit against the Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation for terminating him because of his age in violation of Mass. Gen. L. eh. 151B 1 and against his supervisor, James Heard, for intentionally…
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