The California Court of Appeals held that even though the statement was hearsay it was admissable. The issue was whether the American Vice President's relaying of Ihara's statements were admissable. Mitsubishi Electronics argued that there was no evidence that he was authorized to report on what others said at the president's meeting. It is certainly within the province of a company vice president to 'carry the word' of company direction to his or her subordinates when the vice president receives that word from the very highest levels of the firm. Age discrimination laws target the generality that an individual cannot do the work just because he or she has reached a certain age.
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