VA Secretary As Respondent Asks U.S. High Court To Accept Age Bias Petition

Mealey's (June 4, 2019, 8:38 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) filed a respondent brief on May 20 in the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that the high court should grant a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by a VA pharmacist to resolve a circuit division over the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and whether its “federal-sector provision requires but-for causation” (Noris Babb v. Robert Wilkie, No. 18-882, U.S. Sup.)....