James H. POWELL, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant

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• holding that company officials’ threats that the plaintiff would be “dealt with,” among other evidence allows for the inference of possible pretext
• holding that plaintiff bears burden of production as well as persuasion
• stating that under the facts of the case, \the jury finding of retaliatory discharge necessarily found 'willfulness' as defined by Thurston \
• holding that plaintiff bears burden of production as well as persuasion
• affirming jury finding of willfulness in a case in which jury found that plaintiff was fired in retaliation for exercising his ADEA rights
• finding sufficient evidence of pretext when, among other things, “officials made specific threats against [the employee] for” engaging in protected activity

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