Fredrick P. Godfredson v. Hess & Clark, Inc.

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• finding that store manager could not be held responsible for a drop in sales attributable to an economic downturn and therefore the legitimacy of the employer’s expectation of sales growth was a genuine issue of material fact
• rejecting the plaintiffs age discrimination claim under the ADEA and finding that the defendant engaged in a valid RIF
• explaining that the fourth prong of the prima facie - 10 - No. 05-5009 Wu v. Tyson Foods, Inc. case is modified when the employee is dismissed due to a reduction-in-force “because in a reduction-of-force situation the plaintiff is not in fact replaced”
• “[A]n employee’s termination, even if based upon discrimination, does not rise to the level of ‘extreme and outrageous conduct’ without proof of something more.”
• discussing standard under identical Ohio law
• discussing standard under identical Ohio law

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