Burke, — U.S. at-, 112 S.Ct. at 1872. In the present case, the plaintiff received damages provided for by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which prohibits discrimination in an employee’s compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment based on age. The purpose of the ADEA is “to promote employment of older persons based on their ability rather than age; to prohibit arbitrary age discrimination in employment; to help employers and workers find ways of meeting problems arising from the impact of age on employm s willful, the plaintiff is awarded two times the amount of lost wages and benefits. Moreover, liquidated damages are considered to be punitive in nature. See Trans-World Airlines v. Thurston, 469 U.S. 111, 125, 105 S.Ct. 613, 624, 83 L.Ed.2d 523 (1985) (<HOLDING>); see also Lindsey v. American Cast Iron Pipe
holding that liquidated damages under userra are punitive and therefore subject to trial by jury holding that because liquidated damages under the adea are punitive in nature a jurys award of state punitive damages and adea liquidated damages constitutes a double recovery and therefore reducing the total recovery by the amount of the liquidated damages award holding that the legislative history under the act indicates that liquidated damages are intended to be punitive in nature holding that liquidated damages under the adea are intended to punish and deter while contrasting them to the legislative purpose of liquidated damages under the fsla holding that liquidated damages under the adea are intended to punish and deter