SPENCER v. BRISTOL-MEYERS SQUIBB CO.


720 A.2d 601 (1998)

156 N.J. 455

Diane E. SPENCER, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. BRISTOL-MEYERS SQUIBB COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation and E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc., a New York Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided December 8, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosemary Alito, Newark, for defendants-appellants (McCarter & English, attorneys; Ms. Alito and Anthony Palmisano, Jr., on the briefs).

James B. Sharp for plaintiff-respondent (Reiseman & Sharp, attorneys; Meghan E. Walsh, Parsippany, on the brief).


The opinion of the Court was delivered by O'HERN, J.

This is an employment discrimination case. At issue is the admission into evidence of a statement by a personnel director to an employee to the effect that the employee was denied promotion because her immediate supervisors did not wish a woman of her age and race to hold the position that the employee sought.

We hold that, because the personnel director's statement identified the supervisors involved, and...

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