FONTAINE v. EBTEC CORP.


415 Mass. 309 (1993)

613 N.E.2d 881

ROBERT J. FONTAINE vs. EBTEC CORPORATION & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

May 21, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Egan (Maurice M. Cahillane & David G. Cohen with him) for the plaintiff.

Richard D. Hayes for the defendants.

Stephen S. Ostrach & Emily R. Livingston, for Associated Industries of Massachusetts, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

George P. Napolitano, for Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., ABRAMS, NOLAN, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

In January, 1988, the plaintiff was discharged from his position as vice president of Ebtec Corporation, an American subsidiary of Thermal Scientific, PLC, a British company (defendants). A jury in the Superior Court found for the plaintiff in his ensuing claims that the defendants had violated G.L.c. 151B, § 4 (1B) (1990 ed.), the Massachusetts statute which prohibits age discrimination, and 29 U.S.C. §§ 621 et seq. (1988), the Federal...

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