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senior executive with prostate cancer helped land the company’s biggest contract ever and was promoted with a pay raise. Months later, he was fired. He believed his age and health had something to do with it—and brought claims of discrimi
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tion. TL;DR: A senior executive with prostate cancer sued after being fired months after a promotion and raise, he alleged disability and age discrimination. But the Sixth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the employer, holding that dissatisfaction with his leadership of a biometric identity product—not his health or age—was the real reason for th
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