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Justices to Hear Cigarette, Drug Cases
Philip Morris, which makes Marlboro and Marlboro Light cigarettes, is asking the Supreme Court to throw out a case brought by three longtime smokers.
(By Mel Evans -- Associated Press)
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Crawford argued in her petition to the court such a limitation would hinder investigations.
"Workers of ordinary prudence would be likely to avoid cooperating with a sexual harassment internal investigation if they knew they could be fired for doing so," the petition said.
The age-discrimination case involves a downsizing at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Upstate New York. Lockheed Martin used an index for judging which employees should be retained. The result was that 30 of the 31 employees fired were older than 40, even though 60 percent of the workforce was in that age category.
The workers won at the district court level under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, but an appeals court reversed that ruling. The Bush administration sided with the workers and asked the Supreme Court to take the case.
It is Meacham v. KAPL.
The other cases are MetLife v. Glenn, which raises questions about conflicts of interest in the management of an employee benefit plan, and Summers v. Earth Island Institute, which involves who may challenge a federal regulation.
