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Showing posts with label jury verdicts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jury verdicts. Show all posts
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Should jury verdict forms in discrimination cases include the McDonnell Douglas factors?

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Jury trials are often won or lost based on the instructions and verdict forms the court provides the jury. Jury instructions outline the leg...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023

What does an employer have to do to lose $366 million?!

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$366 million dollars. That's how much a jury awarded Jennifer Harris, a Black sales manager targeted and then fired by FedEx after she ...
Monday, July 19, 2021

An adverse jury verdict is just a number on a piece of paper

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Late last week, a federal jury tagged Walmart with a verdict totaling more than $125 million in a disability discrimination lawsuit the EEOC...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Jury verdicts are just numbers on a paper

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On Monday, a California jury awarded a former Autozone employee $185 million in punitive damages. She had sued the company for pregnancy di...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

25 million reasons to tell a good story

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Trying an employment case to a jury is an art. You are limited by a jury’s attention span (which, by the way, is getting worse as a result o...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

The “when” of counting employees for damage caps in federal discrimination cases

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Counting is wonderful, Counting is marvelous, Counting’s the best thing to do. Counting is happiness, Counting is ecstas...
Monday, June 13, 2011

“He grabbed her, threw her to the floor, pulled up her shirt, masturbated and ejaculated on her” = $95 million (wow)

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The acts of sexual harassment alleged by Ashley Alford against her supervisor, Richard Moore, in Alford v. Aaron Rents, Inc. are among most...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Ohio appellate court slashes state’s largest discrimination verdict by more than 75%

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It has been almost two years since a Cuyahoga County jury handed down what remains the state’s largest single-plaintiff employment verdict: ...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Quicken Loans beats multi-million dollar overtime claim

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The Department of Labor may not be the most hospitable place for employers these days. Federal juries, however, can prove to be just the opp...
Monday, September 20, 2010

More on cancer as a disability

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Last week I wrote how businesses would likely see more employees claim cancer as a protected disability under the Americans with Disabilitie...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

The best way to settle an employment case

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Yesterday at Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer , Michael Fox praised the Employment Law Group for announcing a jury trial loss in a blog pos...
Monday, July 12, 2010

If you can’t trust your son…. Multi-million dollar jury verdict for boss’s son’s theft of trade secrets

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According to the Youngstown Business Journal , a federal court jury awarded Allied Erecting & Dismantling $3.046 million for claims that...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

The dark side of discrimination litigation

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The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a jury awarded a former applicant for a job a Lucasfilm $113,800 in damages on a pregnancy discrim...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

Quarter-billion dollar verdict in sex discrimination suit highlights risks of family responsibility discrimination

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In October 2009, Working Mother magazine named Novartis Pharmaceuticals one of its 100 best companies for working families , lauding its fl...
Monday, April 19, 2010

When should you get an attorney involved with a problem employee? As soon as possible.

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A few weeks ago I wrote about what employers need to know about EEOC investigations . I suggested that employers get attorneys involved “as ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Nashville jury rejects associational harassment claim

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If a white employee stands up for her black co-workers, and is then ostracized and called racially-charged names because of it, is she entit...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

A cautionary lesson in litigation management

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10 years ago, an Atlanta restaurant fired its highest ranking female manager. Last month, a federal jury finally dismissed her sexual harass...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The “Cat’s Paw” is alive and well in the 6th Circuit -- Pro se plaintiff’s trial win affirmed by Sixth Circuit

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File this case under the category of never underestimate your opponent. The 6th Circuit has affirmed a trial court’s $120,000.50 verdict in ...
Monday, November 17, 2008

The swift hand of justice

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Next time you consider whether you really want to litigate a case, consider the following case study. On Friday, I reported about a case i...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Discrimination verdicts rise 70% in one year

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Earlier this week I reported that fewer plaintiffs are winning their federal employment cases . Another study, however, suggests that those ...