A deeply divided Commonwealth Court panel has revived an age and sex discrimination lawsuit brought by a man who was fired for bringing a shotgun to work, even though the company had a zero-tolerance policy about bringing firearms onto company property.
Because the younger female co-worker who was going to take the antique shotgun to be refurbished wasn’t fired—nor were two younger employees fired for previously bringing hunting bows to work—the en banc panel ruled 4-3 in Leibensperger v. Carpenter Technologies that the plaintiff, Bruce Leibensperger, offered enough evidence to take his age and sex discrimination suit against his former employer to trial.
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