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BEASON v. UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP.

Docket No. 02-7425.

337 F.3d 271 (2003)

Donald BEASON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Hamilton Standard Division, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 21, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Goselin, Hartford, Connecticut (Gregg D. Adler, Livingston, Adler, Pulda, Meiklejohn & Kelly, P.C., Hartford, Connecticut, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Henry A. Platt, Washington, D.C. (Anessa Abrams, Schmeltzer, Aptaker & Shepard, P.C., Washington, D.C.; Edward J. Dempsey, Labor Counsel, United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, Connecticut, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellee.

Charles Krich, Hartford, Connecticut (Philip A. Murphy, Jr., Commission Counsel, Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, Hartford, Connecticut, of counsel), filed a brief on behalf of Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities as Amicus Curiae.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, CARDAMONE, and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge.

To resolve this appeal, we must construe a Connecticut statute prohibiting discrimination in employment practices in that state. Statutes are not empty vessels into which courts, under the guise of construing a statute, pour meaning. Not because it would spoil the statute in the same sense as pouring new wine into old wineskins "bursts the skins," spills the wine and spoils the skins, Mark 2:22 (R.A. Knox), but because it is the obligation...

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