TYLER v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP.

Nos. 733, 920, Dockets 91-7908, 91-7918.

958 F.2d 1176 (1992)

Alvin Joel TYLER, Plaintiff-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 10, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas S. Gill, Buffalo, N.Y. (Saperston & Day, P.C., Thomas F. Knab, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee cross-appellant.

Michael R. Moravec, Buffalo, N.Y. (Phillips, Lytle, Hitchcock, Blaine & Huber, David K. Floyd, of counsel), for defendant-appellant cross-appellee.

Before OAKES, Chief Judge, PRATT and MINER, Circuit Judges.


GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

Twenty-two-year-old Alvin Joel Tyler went to work for Bethlehem Steel Corporation on July 5, 1960. After 26 years of service, Bethlehem on July 10, 1986, fired him, or as the corporation put it, placed him on "permanent layoff". In this diversity case brought under New York's Human Rights Law, N.Y.Exec.Law §§ 290-301 (McKinney 1982 & Supp.1992), a jury awarded Tyler $995,000 in damages for age discrimination.

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