Age Discrimination in Employment Law 2012 Cumulative Supplement

The new 2012 Cumulative Supplement, current through June 30, 2011, provides critical updates on this area of law and includes:

• Explanation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's "Final Regulation on Disparate Impact and Reasonable Factors Other than Age," issued in March 2012, addressing the Supreme Court cases on disparate impact under the ADEA in Smith v. City of Jackson (2005) and Meacham v. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (2008)
• Analysis of appellate court decisions following the Supreme Court's interpretation of "but for" causation in Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. (2009), and continued use of the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework to analyze disparate treatment actions brought under the ADEA
• Discussion of federal court decisions awarding monetary relief under the ADEA and the proper formation of jury instructions pertaining to those remedies