Northern Health Facilities v. Batz ex rel. Estate of Batz

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the issue of whether a company engaged in a pattern or practice of intentional discrimination in the planning an execution of a RIF was sufficient to meet the burden of establishing predominance
• noting that supervisors had allegedly “voiced a desire to . . . lay off the senior-most engineers at the plant”
• noting that supervisors had allegedly “voiced a desire to . . . lay off the senior-most engineers at the plant”
• stating that liability phase will determine whether the employer engaged in a pattern-or-practice of discrimination against its employees in violation of the ADEA
• certifying a class consisting persons “employed by one of Defendants, at any time since June 23, 2000”
• “[S]tanding alone, the prospect of individual defenses should not defeat authorization of a collective action in this case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).