United States Eleventh Circuit

In a battery and sexual harassment action, partial judgment for plaintiff and for defendants is affirmed where: 1) defendants failed to show that the compensatory award for emotional damages equal to a claimant's annual income evinced prejudice, passion or corruption on the part of the jury; 2) the $506,847.75 punitive award bore a reasonable relationship both to the harm plaintiff suffered and to the harm likely to result should defendants not be penalized now; and 3) plaintiff was not a prevailing party on her Title VII claim and thus was not entitled to attorney's fees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/06/2010
• Published 01/06/2010

Judges

• MARCUS, Circuit Judge:, Before MARCUS, FAY and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

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