Schechner      Lobertini

The Chronicle’s Bob Egelko reports that a federal judge today dismissed an age-discrimination suit by two KPIX-TV reporters, Bill Schechner and John Lobertini, who were fired when the CBS-owned station reduced its staff. Schechner, who was 66 when he was laid off in March 2008, and Lobertini, who was 47, claimed that management used money-saving layoffs to dump five of its older employees, all of them at least 47. KPIX denied targeting older workers and said it had dismissed non-specialty, general-assignment reporters whose contracts were expiring, according to the Chron report. Today’s dismissal follows a ruling in June in which a judge found that there was insufficient evidence to support four of the five claims made by the reporters.