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: How Appealing"Supreme Court makes age bias suits harder to win; Justices, overturning a jury award won by a 54-year-old who was demoted, say workers bear the full burden of proof"
Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that "Supreme Court sets high bar for age-bias suits; Older workers bear the burden of proof to show age was key reason they were fired or demoted."
The Associated Press reports that "Court makes it harder to prove age discrimination."
Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that "Worker Age-Bias Suits Limited by U.S. Supreme Court."
You can access today's ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., No. 08-441, at this link.
Full post as published by How Appealing on June 18, 2009 (boomark / email).
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