Legal Opinion
Ronald Lesch v. Crown Cork & Seal Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 28, 2002No. 00-4239PublishedCited by 154 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
At the age of 61, Ronald Lesch’s career as the comptroller of Crown International Management Systems (CIMS), a division of Crown Cork & Seal Co. (Crown), came to an abrupt end when Crown acquired a French company and decided it no longer needed CIMS to provide certain accounting services it had previously used. Lesch believed that age discrimination lay behind the loss of his job, given that a man 11 years his junior was selected to head the new Corporate Technologies (CT) accounting group, and given the fact that the CT group took over some non-CIMS accounting…
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