Purdy v. Town of Greenburgh

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”) does not preempt a § 1983 action for age discrimination when the § 1983 claim is based on substantive rights distinct from those established by the ADEA, such as the right to equal protection of the laws
• explaining in ADEA case that “a plaintiff may through statistical evidence establish a pattern or practice of ... failing to hire people over forty ... from which an inference of age discrimination may be drawn”
• “Because age is not a suspect class, the Equal Protection Clause only requires a rational basis for discrimination on the basis of age.”
• “Here, there is no dispute that age discrimination is contrary to clearly established federal law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).