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Introduction

J. Dawson Gasquet Professor, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University. Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Campus Diversity, Louisiana State University and A& M College and Assistant Professor of Law, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University.

The following Articles were presented at a symposium on Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Prods.Co.1 sponsored by the Louisiana Law Review. Presenting papers at the Lod Cook Alumni Center of Louisiana State University were five of the leading scholars on employment discrimination law: Professor Catherine J. Lanctot2of the Villanova University Law School, Professor Michael Selmi3 of the George Washington Law School, Professor Linda Hamilton Krieger4, University of California at Berkely School of Law, Professor Rebecca Hanner White5 of the University of Georgia Law School, and Professor Michael Zimmer6 of the Seton Hall University School of Law.7 Respondents were the authors and Professor George Strickler, Jr.8 of Tulane Law School.

The Supreme Court's June decision in Reeves reinstated a jury verdict for plaintiff Roger Reeves, a supervisor at Sanderson Plumbing who was discharged on the basis of his age after forty years of service. The Fifth Circuit had reversed the District Court's denial of a motion for judgment as a matter of law under Rule 50 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The Fifth Circuit panel argued that the plaintiff's showing of "pretext"9

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