LESCH v. CROWN CORK & SEAL CO.

No. 00-4239.

282 F.3d 467 (2002)

Ronald LESCH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CROWN CORK & SEAL CO., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 28, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig E. Anderson (argued), Jacobson, Brandvik & Anderson, Joseph E. Tighe, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

Joseph R. Marconi (argued), Johnson & Bell, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellee.

Before RIPPLE, MANION, and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.


DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.

At the age of 61, Ronald Lesch's career as the comptroller of Crown International Management Systems (CIMS), a division of Crown Cork & Seal Co. (Crown), came to an abrupt end when Crown acquired a French company and decided it no longer needed CIMS to provide certain accounting services it had previously used. Lesch believed that age discrimination lay behind the loss of his job, given that a man 11 years his junior was selected...

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