Cleveland FORDE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KEE LOX MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC., Defendant, and Burroughs Corporation, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding in Title VII context that “[f]or an employer to be considered a successor there must be ‘substantial continuity of identity in the business enterprise before and after a change’” (quoting John Wiley & Sons v. Livingston, 376 U.S. 543, 551 (1964))
• Bankruptcy Code, whose purposes include final resolution and discharge of corporate debt, pre-empts otherwise-valid successor liability
• “For an employer to be considered a successor there must be ‘substantial continuity of identity in the business enterprise before and after a change.’” (quoting John Wiley & Sons v. Livingston, 376 U.S. 543, 551 (1964))
• no successor liability where none of predecessor’s employees retained

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