NT Lakis lawyers have filed a “friend-of-the-court” brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in an important case raising the issue of whether the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) allows a subgroup of age-protected plaintiffs to bring a disparate impact lawsuit under the law.
Our brief in Karlo v. Pittsburgh Glass Works, No. 15-3435 (3d Cir.), urges the appeals court to affirm a federal trial court ruling that dismissed such a lawsuit. We argue, among other things, that allowing ADEA claims to proceed on behalf of a subgroup of older workers would put employers in the nearly impossible position of having to ensure that their policies and practices do not adversely impact any of the infinite number of subsets of workers over the age of 40.
A copy of our brief in Karlo v. Pittsburgh Glass Works is available here.
Members of the Equal Employment Advisory Council (EEAC) can read more here.