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BURNS v. EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR. SOC. OF U. S.

No. 79 Civ. 4726(MEL).

530 F.Supp. 768 (1982)

Kay BURNS, James J. Connors, Joseph L. Farrar, Judah J. Harris, Frances B. Klepsch and Jock Thornton, individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. The EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF the UNITED STATES, Defendant.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

January 27, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hockert & Flamm, New York City, for plaintiffs; Leonard N. Flamm, New York City, of counsel.

Werner Weinstock, New York City, for defendant; Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

LASKER, District Judge.

This case arises out of a large scale staff reduction undertaken by defendant Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States ("Equitable") in 1978 and 1979, in which over five hundred employees were terminated, approximately 360 of whom were over forty years old. The complaint in this action was filed in September, 1979, by Kay Burns and the other named plaintiffs, charging violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967...

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