By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE, August 12 – At least thirty cases have been filed against IBM for age discrimination, raising questions of arbitration and the so-called "piggybacking" rule.
On August 11, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Jesse M. Furman held a proceeding. Inner City Press covered it.
Judge Furman has not consolidated that cases, but has had some twenty of them transferred to him. IBM opposes formal consolidation, claiming that the employees agreed to not engage in class actions or administrative equivalents.
So Judge Furman has canceled the conferences in the other cases, and expressed an openness to proceeding as In Re IBM Arbitration Cases.
For now, the lead case is Chastka v. International Business Machines Corp., 21-cv-6296 (Furman).
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