James Castelluccio v. International Business Machines Corp.: A Stamford man who claims that IBM dismissed him after 41 years because of his age stands to collect between $3.5 and $4 million following a federal court trial.
The drawn-out battle between what the plaintiff’s lawyer called “David and Goliath” had been in the courts since 2009. Of particular note was a pre-trial motion concerning an internal investigation by IBM that drew the attention of employment lawyers nationwide. A federal judge, who ruled the investigative report inadmissible as trial evidence, said the probe was too one-sided and needed to be more neutral, perhaps done by an independent third party.
