Kenneth James Lowe v. Walbro, LLC

Bay City, Michigan employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on an age discrimination theory.



In June 2018, Kenneth Lowe was fired from his job at Walbro LLC. Lowe was 60 years old at the time and had worked at Walbro for more than four decades. He responded by filing this diversity-of-citizenship lawsuit against Walbro, alleging that the company had violated Michigan's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA), Mich. Comp. Laws § 37.2101 et seq., by discharging him because of his age.

A jury found in favor of Lowe after a full trial on the merits.



The district court subsequently granted Walbro’s motion for judgment as a matter of law and vacated the jury’s verdict, holding that the evidence that Lowe presented at trial, which was materially different from the evidence that he had previously presented in overcoming Walbro’s motion for summary judgment, was insufficient for the case to have been submitted to the jury.



Affirmed