Peter M. Benjamin, Melvin H. Klipper and David Peritz v. United Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• affirming a jury’s finding of a willful violation of the ADEA because the defendant “knew the law but at the same time attempted to evade it”
• “[T]here is no liability for [a willful violation of the ADEA] when a plaintiff proves only that the employer acted negligently, inadvertently, innocently, or even, if the employer was aware of the applicability of the ADEA, and acted reasonably and in good faith.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).