ABBOTT v. FEDERAL FORGE, INC.

No. 89-1797.

912 F.2d 867 (1990)

Raymond ABBOTT, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. FEDERAL FORGE, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 30, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Canzano, Klimist, McKnight, Sale & McClow, Southfield, Mich., Laura J. Campbell, argued, Associate Gen. Counsel Intern. Union, UAW, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Ronald R. Pentecost, argued, Steven J. Halbert, Fraser, Trebilcock, Davis & Foster, Lansing, Mich., for defendant-appellee.

Before WELLFORD and BOGGS, Circuit Judges, and DOWD, District Judge.


BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

This is an age discrimination case involving questions of disparate treatment and disparate impact. When Federal Forge, Inc. learned that former employees of one of its closed plants were demanding seniority pension benefits if they were rehired, it imposed a moratorium on any hiring of those workers. Raymond Abbott and 35 other former employees sued, charging that the moratorium amounted to a refusal to hire on the basis of age, in violation...

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