Court Opinion

ID: 9491669
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 14:20:14.83205+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:54:52.670988
License: Public Domain

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge,
concurring specially.
I concur in the result the court reaches today, and in all of this opinion except Part IV, which holds the district court erred in refusing to allow Coehenour’s attorney to comment on the policy of mandatory retirement at age 72 for all employees. Cochenour was 47 when terminated, and planned to retire at age 50. The policy for 72 year-olds was sufficiently irrelevant to the issues being tried that I cannot conclude the district court abused its discretion in this ruling.
Certainly, the ruling was harmless, but I do not believe it was error.