Walbro Worker Loses Appeal to Restore $2.3 Million Age Bias Win

Walbro LLC defeated a manager’s bid to restore a jury’s $2.3 million discrimination verdict, the Sixth Circuit ruled, finding he didn’t link his firing after more than 41 years to his age.

Kenneth Lowe’s evidence at trial differed from his previous testimony and undercut his alleged direct proof, a unanimous panel said, agreeing with a lower court. His deposition testimony that a supervisor made comments during the termination meeting about Lowe “getting up there in years” and being at retirement age was never presented as “substantive” evidence during the trial and was only heard by the jury when Lowe’s ...