Case: Discrimination/Discharge (W.D. Wash.)

A Washington federal court granted summary judgment to WideOrbit, Inc. in a suit by the estate of a former sales executive, in which the estate alleged the company terminated the 64-year-old sales executive because of his age in violation of the Washington Law Against Discrimination. WideOrbit asserted the executive wasn’t satisfactorily meeting his “new business” sales goals at the time of termination, that he didn’t experience an adverse action when his existing Canadian accounts were transferred to the international division in a restructuring, and that he is unable to show the company’s legitimate nondiscriminatory reasons for its actions were pretextual, ...