A 63-year-old West Texas woman has won an age-discrimination suit against a company run by an entrepreneur who is 72.
On Friday, a Dallas jury awarded Garlan Cunningham of Ranger more than $965,000 for lost wages, mental anguish and punitive damages after being derided as an “old nag,” a possible Alzheimer’s victim and an “old fart,” her attorneys said Monday.
Cunningham said Doris Richeson, a septuagenarian herself, organized the campaign of ridicule, which included an email referring to Cunningham as a lazy cowhand who’d been “in the saddle too long”. The company of which Richeson is founder and chairman operates 49 Dairy Queens in Texas; it denies Cunningham’s allegations and says it plans appeal. (Barry Shlachter, “Texas woman wins discrimination suit”, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Apr. 12).
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