Dorsey v. CONSOLIDATED BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO STATION WEMP, 77-C-144.
Decision Date | 20 May 1977 |
Docket Number | No. 77-C-144.,77-C-144. |
Citation | 432 F. Supp. 542 |
Parties | Joseph DORSEY, Plaintiff, v. CONSOLIDATED BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO STATION WEMP, Defendant. |
Court | U.S. District Court — Eastern District of Wisconsin |
David A. Melnick, Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiff.
Quarles & Brady by Laurence E. Gooding, Jr., Milwaukee, Wis., for defendant.
DECISION and ORDER
The defendant has moved to strike the second claim of the plaintiff's complaint. This motion will be granted.
The plaintiff claims that he has been the victim of age discrimination allegedly perpetrated by his employer, the defendant, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq. In his first claim, Mr. Dorsey seeks damages for "lost compensation, lost severance pay, and other benefits", and his second claim requests damages for injury to his "professional reputation as a radio broadcaster and disc jockey." It is this latter claim which the defendant has moved to strike.
The parties dispute the proper construction of the ADEA with respect to claims for damage to reputation. Mr. Dorsey urges that such damages are or should be allowed under the act as part of lost wages or other compensation. The defendant argues that such claims are not within the purview of the act. The parties suggest that, to their knowledge, no court has decided the narrow issue here in dispute.
By analogy, however, Rogers v. Exxon Research and Engineering Co., 550 F.2d 834, 839 (3d Cir. 1977) is relevant. There, the court reversed a lower court determination which had allowed a claim for damages for pain and suffering under the ADEA. I referred to the district court's decision in the same case, reported at 404 F.Supp. 324 (D.N.J.1975), in Wisniewski v. All-Star Insurance Corp., no. 76-C-662, and Shotola v. All-Star Insurance Corp., no. 76-C-447 (E.D.Wis. January 14, 1977). The court of appeals, in Rogers, stated at page 839:
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