Ex-Reporter Loses Ageism Suit Against Lexingtons’ WKYT

By Andrew Gauthier 

Lexington Herald-Leader

Former television news reporter Jerry Sander has lost an age-discrimination lawsuit against his former employer, Lexington CBS affiliate WKYT (Channel 27).

In a ruling late Friday, federal Judge Karl Forester sided with WKYT’s parent company on all of Sander’s claims, saying the reporter voluntarily quit after a meeting in February 2008 in which he refused to do work for the station’s Web site and its “SnoGo” school and business closings.

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“Sander’s voluntary resignation was clear,” Forester wrote. More…

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