STAMEY v. SOUTHERN BELL TEL. & TEL. CO.

No. 87-8494.

859 F.2d 855 (1988)

Doris STAMEY, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

November 4, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith W. Kochler, Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., Atlanta, Ga., for defendant-appellant, cross-appellee.

James Lee Ford, Ford & Haley, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee, cross-appellant.

Before HILL and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges, and WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge.


WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge:

This case requires this Court to consider once again when an employer's business justification for terminating an employee is a pretext for age discrimination. Doris Stamey alleges that Southern Bell, her employer for 38 years, had placed older workers in a nonmanagerial job category destined to become obsolete; younger workers doing comparable work were given managerial jobs insulated from reductions in the workforce. She sued under...

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