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Paul Starkman authors blog concerning U.S. Supreme Court ruling on age discrimination

Chicago Partner and Chair of the Labor & Employment Law Practice Group, Paul E. Starkman, authored a blog posting today for General-Counselor.com entitled, U.S. Supreme Court creates a sea of change in the law of age discrimination.  General-Counselor.com is the employment law blog for in-house attorneys, business owners and executives maintained by Arnstein & Lehr’s

U.S. Supreme Court creates a sea of change in the law of age discrimination

In what has been called a “sea change” in the law of age discrimination, on June 18, 2009, a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court held in a 5-4 decision that employees bringing disparate treatment claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) must prove that age was the “but-for” cause of the adverse employment [...]