Edgar Neufeld, Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Searle Laboratories, Appellee/cross-Appellant

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• recognizing that “courts have no business telling Searle how to make personnel decisions, which may be objectively or subjectively based”
• recognizing that ‘courts have no business telling Searle how to make personnel decisions, which may be objectively or subjectively based’
• holding that district court abused its discretion in refusing to include in its attorney's fees award the deposition-related travel expenses incurred by prevailing plaintiff's counsel in an ADEA case
• considering post-termination statements where supervisor stated in a staff meeting one month after the plaintiff was allegedly terminated based on age that the supervisor’s objective was to “get rid of” old people
• stating “if the people making the employment decision know that age discrimination is unlawful, and if there is direct evidence — more than just an inference from, say, an arguably pretextual justification — of age-based animus, the trier of fact may properly find willfulness”
• reinstatement avoided if employer shows changed conditions would have ended plaintiffs employment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).