Legal Opinion
Williams v. Cordis Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 8, 1994No. 92-4475PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Per curiam
I.Background
The plaintiff Joseph Williams is a former employee of the Cordis Corporation’s Special Medical Equipment Manufacturing Plant, also known as the Implantables Division, which manufactured heart pacemakers. In early 1987, Cordis decided to stop making pacemakers and sold the Implantables Division to Telectronies Pacing Systems, Inc., also known as TPL-Cordis, Inc. (“TPL”), an unrelated entity. When the sale closed, Cor-dis eliminated Williams’s job and terminated his employment. Williams returned to the same job at the same place, however, as a new TPL employee. See generally…
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