Employment – Age discrimination – Performance

Where a defendant employer was awarded summary judgment on age discrimination claims asserted by plaintiffs who had been discharged as sales representatives, no reversal is warranted, as the defendant produced evidence to show that the discharges were performance-based.

Cameron, et al. v. Idearc Media Corp. (Lawyers Weekly No. 01-179-12) (14 pages) (Boudin, J.) (1st Circuit) Appealed from a decision by Sorokin, U.S.M.J., in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Francis G. Gleason Jr., with whom Gleason & Gleason was on brief, for the plaintiffs-appellants; Arthur G. Telegen, with whom Jean M. Wilson and Seyfarth Shaw were on brief, for the defendant-appellee (Docket No. 11-2186) (July 13, 2012).