EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Appellee,
v.
WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INCORPORATED, a corporation, Appellant.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued September 16, 1982.
Decided July 26, 1983.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Paul M. Thompson, Richmond, Va. (Christine H. Perdue, Richmond, Va., Paul E. Mirengoff, Washington, D.C., Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Va., Robert W. Benson, Western Elec. Co., Inc., Thornton H. Brooks, Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, Greensboro, N.C., on brief), for appellant.
Susan Buckingham Reilly, Washington, D.C. (Michael J. Connolly, General Counsel, Philip D. Sklover, Associate Gen. Counsel, Vella M. Fink, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellee.
Before HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge, and SPROUSE, Circuit Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:
This is an age discrimination case1 involving a work force reduction in the Southern Region of Western Electric Company's (Western) Telephone Switching System Installation Operations. Western appeals from a judgment of the district court holding that it committed both individual and "pattern and practice" employment discrimination in its process of selecting installation supervisors for demotion. We reverse.
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