Patton v. University of Chicago Hospitals

How courts have described this case

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• applying Illinois law; employee sought unsuccessfully to obtain mental distress damages under breach of contract claim when he could not prove all the elements necessary for a tort claim
• applying Illinois law; employee sought unsuccessfully to obtain mental distress damages under breach of contract claim when he could not prove all the elements necessary for a tort claim
• where Age Discrimination in Employment Act did not provide for general damages, plaintiff could not recover for his emotional suffering
• “Under the ADEA, a plaintiff cannot recover damages for emotional suffering caused by age discrimination”
• employer’s reduction-in-force policy may create “enforceable contractual rights”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).