AND · 29usc623:protected-age
The age floor comes from §631, not §623. A comparator or replacement may itself be over forty; substantially younger is the relevant inference, not membership outside the protected class.
Exact element source
because of such individual's age;Source:
docroot/ir/usc/title29.jsonl#title29_sec623; Unicode character offsets [293:326] (end exclusive); SHA-256 d7414b39849853d6a6068539da731f835b09d9f238c028f95f2d0dd04fb6f667.All variants
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interpretation
The ADEA protects workers 40 years of age and older from age-based employment discrimination.
/f3d/911/0450-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2018
The ADEA protects workers 40 years of age and older from age-based employment discrimination.Source:
docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_911.jsonl#/f3d/911/0450-01; Unicode character offsets [9406:9499] (end exclusive); SHA-256 97257ab311a87aaf0349728d2a81d41258a880a37fd76ec64f8b0cd257d6efbc.The age floor comes from §631, not §623. A comparator or replacement may itself be over forty; substantially younger is the relevant inference, not membership outside the protected class.