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Report Link Eighth Circuit Reverses Punitive Damages Award in Sexual Harassment Case.Ford & Harrison LLP - August 08, 2007 In a significant decision addressing when punitive damages are appropriate in a Title VII sexual harassment claim, the Eighth Circuit has held that an employer's good faith efforts to comply with Title VII were sufficient to avoid liability for such damages. See Dominic v. DeVilbiss Air Power Co. (July 20, 2007). In this case, in which Ford & Harrison attorneys represented the employer on appeal, the Eighth Circuit reversed the jury's punitive damages award of $250,000 against the employer. The court held that the jury should not have been permitted to consider the issue of punitive damages because of the employer's good faith efforts to comply with Title VII. Report Link How Your Company Can Better Protect Itself Against An Award Of (Gasp) Punitive Damages: One Word – Training. Helms Mulliss & Wicker - November 10, 2005 Punitive damages. You just gasped didn’t you? It has been our experience as management attorneys that human resources professionals and business owners have recurring nightmares about large punitive damages awards. These nightmares (which unfortunately sometimes come true) often involve a rogue manager who, despite the company’s clear policies forbidding discrimination or harassment of any kind, nonetheless behaves so egregiously that a former employee walks away from court with a six or seven figure check burning a small hole in his or her pocket and a large hole in the company’s bottom line. Report Link Eleventh Circuit Affirms $25,000 Compensatory Award Based On The Employer's Constructive Knowledge Of Workplace Harassment But Reverses Punitive Damages Award.Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt - February 02, 2002 Discusses Miller v. Kenworth of Dothan, 7 D.L.R. A-3to A-4 (11th Cir., January 10, 2002), in which the court reversed a punitive damages award because the employer did not act with actual malice or reckless indifference to the plaintiff's federally protected rights where it lacked actual knowledge of the harassment. Report Link Punitive Damages Awardable Without Compensatory Damages.Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt - November 30, 2001 Discusses Cush-Crawford v. Adchem Corp. (2nd Cir. 11/16/01), in which the court affirmed a jury verdict of $100,000, based on punitive damages only in a Title VII sexual harassment suit. Report Link EEOC Enforcement Guidance.Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - July 01, 1992 EEOC's Enforcement Guidance: Compensatory and Punitive Damages Available under § 102 of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Report Link EEOC Enforcement Guidance.Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - July 01, 1992 EEOC's Enforcement Guidance: Compensatory and Punitive Damages Available under § 102 of the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
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