Stanford v. Kraft Foods, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ASPEN, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff, Dr. Marlene Stanford, filed a five-count complaint against her former employer, Kraft Foods, alleging violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and Title VII and adding pendant state claims of tortious interference with contract,, defamation per se, and breach of contract. Stanford brought the tortious interference and defamation claims against three individual employees of Kraft as well.

Stanford worked for Kraft — most recently in the company’s Technology Division — from March 1986, until, presumably, March 5,1998, when…