15 results for 'cat:"Damages" AND cat:"Employment Discrimination"'.
J. Self grants the mover's motion for default judgment in an employment discrimination action against the moving companies. The mover, a Black man who is Muslim, claimed that he was subjected to race- and religion-based discrimination and ultimately fired after his boss insisted in an outburst that the Quaran promoted hate and the killing of innocents. The mover exhausted his administrative remedies and sufficiently established that the companies discriminated against Black employees, including with respect to compensation. The mover is entitled to $50,000 in damages, $16,000 in attorney fees and back pay plus interest.
Court: USDC Middle District of Georgia, Judge: Self, Filed On: May 2, 2024, Case #: 5:23cv394, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: damages, employment Discrimination
J. Chapman finds that the lower court properly found for an employee on disability discrimination and retaliation claims against the city and awarded her $500,000 plus $278,000 in back pay. The city failed to establish that the trial court abused its discretion in declining to apply judicial estoppel based on the employee's Social Security disability proceedings to prevent her from testifying that she could work with a reasonable accommodation. Further, the city's challenge to the jury instructions "inexplicably" fails to even mention the court's application of a damages cap on the jury award, which reduced the damages by over $1 million. Affirmed.
Court: Missouri Court Of Appeals, Judge: Chapman, Filed On: April 30, 2024, Case #: WD85851, Categories: Ada / Rehabilitation Act, damages, employment Discrimination
J. Hale grants the district's motion to dismiss this employment retaliation and discrimination suit. The former employee alleges she was subject to harassment and discrimination. Her complaint says certain supervisors were acting in the scope of their employment, and her claims must fail under the intracorporate-conspiracy doctrine. The employee's argument a supervisor was acting in his personal interest when he fired her is contradicted by the complaint. The dismissal of her improperly-made standalone claim for punitive damages does not preclude her from recovering damages if the evidence warrants.
Court: USDC Western District of Kentucky, Judge: Hale , Filed On: March 20, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv42, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: damages, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Carney finds that the district court improperly dismissed claims of discrimination in hiring brought by a candidate for a New York City youth services job. The action was not redundant after a state court rejected the applicant's civil rights claims because he amended the federal filing to also demand damages, which could not be awarded in the state case. Vacated in part.
Court: 2nd Circuit, Judge: Carney, Filed On: March 15, 2024, Case #: 22-412, Categories: damages, employment Discrimination
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J. Aarons finds that a business was properly found guilty of discriminatory practices toward a pregnant employee based on evidence that the employee's working conditions were made so intolerable she felt compelled to resign. Meanwhile, the award of $65,000 in lost wages and mental anguish and the $10,000 civil fine were reasonable. Affirmed.
Court: New York Appellate Divisions, Judge: Aarons, Filed On: March 7, 2024, Case #: CV-23-0381, Categories: damages, employment Discrimination
[Consolidated.] J. Goodwine finds that plaintiff, a family services office supervisor, was improperly awarded $2 million in whistleblower claims brought after he filed reports contending cases had been seriously mismanaged and that his supervisor lied about her case management notes. Plaintiff did not suffer physical or economic harm, and thus he had been awarded excessive punitive damages. Reversed in part.
Court: Kentucky Court Of Appeals, Judge: Goodwine, Filed On: January 26, 2024, Case #: 2022-CA-0935-MR, Categories: damages, employment Discrimination, Whistleblowers
J. Lin awards the employee $75,000 in damages after Boeing demoted him in retaliation for reporting a co-worker's age discriminatory conduct toward other workers. The employee was demoted and discouraged from applying for his former position within weeks of his complaint, and there is little evidence that Boeing's supervisor worked to help the employee get promoted.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: Lin, Filed On: January 22, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv533, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, damages, employment Discrimination
J. Wyrick rules that the plaintiff truck driver is entitled to both compensatory and punitive damages in this lawsuit alleging that the defendant trucking company violated Section 1981 "by terminating his employment contract in part because of his race," as well as a state law claim for unpaid wages. The clerk previously entered default against the defendant company, which "filed no answer or other responsive pleading." The court concludes that punitive damages are warranted under the circumstances, based on the driver's "federally protected right to be free from racial discrimination."
Court: USDC Western District of Oklahoma , Judge: Wyrick, Filed On: October 5, 2023, Case #: 5:22cv583, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, damages, employment Discrimination
J. Harjani denies the Chicago Transit Authority’s motion for a new trial on liability and damages, damages alone or a remittitur on jury award, stemming from the underlying race discrimination and retaliation case brought by an electrician. At trial, the jury returned a split verdict by finding the transit agency not liable for race discrimination, but siding with the electrician on his retaliatory harassment claims and awarding him $99,000 in damages. The court finds that a new trial is not warranted because nothing in the jury’s verdict was against the manifest weight of the evidence.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Harjani, Filed On: August 10, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv6093, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: damages, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation