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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

WARD ARMSTRONG, LEROY BELL, ) 

FRANK CASIAS, JANET CONNAWAY, ) 

JACK FELIX, LEROY HERDER, } 

JUDITH LANGSTON, PENNIE LOVE, ) 

DUANE MILLER, ROBERT SCHMALZ, ) 

DICK SUCKOW, GLENN TYLER, and) 

MARK WHITE, ) 

Plaintiffs-Appellants, 

FILED 

Unit.eel Stat.es Court of Appeals 

Tenth Circuit 

MAR 201989 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

v. 

DELTA MONTROSE ELECTRIC 

ASSOCIATION, 

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No. 87-2282 

(D.C. No. 85-M-91} 

( D. Colo.) 

Defendant-Appellee. 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before LOGAN, SETH, AND TACHA, Circuit Judges. 

This is an appeal from a jury verdict in favor of the 

defendants. The case arose out of a reorganization of defendant 

Delta Montrose Electric Association (DMEA) during which the 

plaintiffs were among several employees terminated from their 

employment and not rehired in subsequent hiring. The plaintiffs 

contend that the rehiring decisions were discriminatory on the 

basis of the age of the employees in violation of the Age 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, 29 U.S.C §§ 621-634. 

The plaintiffs challenge the district court's instructions to the 

jury and the admission of certain evidence relating to the 

postreorganization performance of DMEA. We have reviewed the 

instructions in light of the evidence presented at trial and have 

concluded that the district court did not err in instructing the 

jury. The instructions, when taken as a whole, correctly state 

the law and could not have misled the jury. Further, the district 

court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of DMEA's 

performance after the reorganization and layoff. 

AFFIRMED. 

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ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

Deanell Reece Tacha 

Circuit Judge 

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