Legal Opinion
Williams v. General Motors Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 14, 1981No. Nos. 79-2857, 80-7192PublishedCited by 200 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge:
In this case, we explore the contours of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-634 (1976 & U.S. C.A.Cum.Supp.1980), and resolve questions concerning the intended scope of that Act. Our conclusion, in brief, is that plaintiffs have failed to establish a prima facie case of age discrimination, and we accordingly affirm certain orders of the district court and reverse others, as detailed infra.
The trial of this cause was tortuously complex; the many thousands of pages of trial testimony, depositions, and exhibits bear witness to that. The…
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