Former CBS Employees Fail to Revive Age Discrimination Lawsuit

CBS Broadcasting Inc. won’t face reinstated claims that age bias played a role in the transfer of 23 former employees to a different company as part of a sale of its Television City operations, a federal appeals court said.

CBS provided “legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons” for both the transfer of the employees and for their exclusion from a voluntary buyout, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said Tuesday in an unpublished ruling.

The company said that “the transferred employees were selected based on their roles, to ensure continuity of operations after the transfer,” and that it was “contractually ...