Closed Case
Age Discrimination in Employment
Settled in 1997 for $28.5 million

In the late 1980's, Control Data Corporation (now known as Ceridian), like many corporations, laid off thousands of workers. Vernon Burns and Jack Kley, two long-term Control Data employees, believed that older workers were laid off in disproportionate numbers. 

In 1989, Sprenger + Lang filed an age discrimination action on behalf of the older workers who were laid off. During the ten years of litigation, Sprenger + Lang took or defended hundreds of depositions, argued dozens of motions, and prepared for trial twice. In March 1997, on the first day of the consolidation trial of 316 individual cases, the case finally settled for $28.5 million.