LOEB v. TEXTRON, INC.

Nos. 78-1340, 78-1364.

600 F.2d 1003 (1979)

Frank L. LOEB, Plaintiff, v. TEXTRON, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 21, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen N. Shulman, Washington, D.C., with whom Joseph A. Artabane and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for Textron, Inc., et al.

A. Lauriston Parks, Providence, R.I., with whom Dennis J. McCarten and Hanson, Curran & Parks, Providence, R.I., were on brief, for Frank L. Loeb.

Dennis D. Clark, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., with whom Carin Ann Clauss, Sol. of Labor, and Donald S. Shire, Associate Sol., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for the Secretary of Labor, amicus curiae.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Frank L. Loeb brought this action in January 1976, alleging that the defendants (Textron, Textron's Speidel division, and several of its officers) had discharged him in 1975 because of his age, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-634. In May 1978 a jury returned a verdict for Loeb. Defendants appeal the judgment of liability, and both parties appeal the court's handling...

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