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· 8/20/2013

Cnty. of Durham v. Orr

Citations

  • 229 N.C. App. 196
  • 749 S.E.2d 113

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that evidence of employer's intent to discriminate on the basis of age could be direct evidence, such as a paper with the notation \Lay-Off--Too Old\ beside a plaintiff's name, or circumstantial evidence such as statistics or evidence of employer subterfuge
  • noting that evidence of employer’s intent to discriminate on the basis of age could be direct evidence, such as a paper with the notation “Lay-Off — Too Old” beside a plaintiff’s name, or circumstantial evidence such as statistics or evidence of employer subterfuge
  • Unit B decisions are binding precedent in this circuit. Stein v. Reynolds Securities, Inc., 667 F.2d 33, 34 (11th Cir.1982)
  • “[Seniority and age discrimination are unrelated.. . . We state without equivocation that the seniority a given plaintiff has accumulated entitles him to no better or worse treatment in an age discrimination suit”
  • \[S]eniority and age discrimination are unrelated. . . . We state without equivocation that the seniority a given plaintiff has accumulated entitles him to no better or worse treatment in an age discrimination suit\
  • scrap of paper on which was written “Too old-Lay Off” constituted direct evidence

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