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Coston v. Plitt Theatres, Inc.

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Good law
Court
Seventh Circuit
Citation
860 F.2d 834
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
46 of 46
Citing cases (total)
46
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Coston v. Plitt Theatres, Inc. remains good law on this review. On remand, the Seventh Circuit held that an employer's violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act is willful for liquidated damages only if the employer knew or recklessly disregarded that its conduct violated the Act.
More on how this was screened

All 46 flagged citations were read, and none shows adverse treatment of this 1988 ruling. Most report that Coston overruled earlier Seventh Circuit decisions on the willfulness standard.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

46 later cases cite Coston v. Plitt Theatres, Inc.; 46 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Every one of the 46 flagged citations was read, and each turned out to be something other than adverse treatment: a routine application, a party's argument the court rejected, or the case itself discussing older law. That reading is the finding this page exists to report.

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