A 57-year-old oil drilling company employee fired by a supervisor who allegedly told him “there sure are a lot of old farts around here” will get a chance to take his age discrimination case to a federal jury because of the appellate work of Houston attorney Alfonso Kennard.

The background to the case, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Goudeau v. National Oilwell Varco, is as follows.

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