LINN v. ANDOVER NEWTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, INC.

Nos. 88-1257, 88-1258 and 88-1394.

874 F.2d 1 (1989)

Edmund H. LINN, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. ANDOVER NEWTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, INC., Defendant, Appellant. Edmund H. LINN, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. ANDOVER NEWTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, INC., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren H. Pyle, Boston, Mass., with whom Barbara Hickingbottom and Angoff, Goldman, Manning, Pyle, Wanger & Hiatt, P.C., Boston, Mass., were on brief, for Edmund H. Linn.

Leonard F. Clarkin with whom Susan A. Jackson, Timothy M. Hughes and Haussermann, Davison & Shattuck, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for Andover Newton Theological School.

Before COFFIN and BREYER, Circuit Judges, and PETTINE, Senior District Judge.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

In 1981, plaintiff-appellee Edmund Linn was discharged from his tenured faculty position by the Andover Newton Theological School (the School). Believing he was fired unlawfully, Linn brought an action in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts alleging that his termination violated both the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq. (ADEA), and his contract of tenured employment with...

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