United States First Circuit

Judgment in a racial harassment case is affirmed where: 1) the Supreme Court has rejected the argument that a finding of a hostile work environment requires that there be an award of compensatory damages; 2) plaintiff forfeited the issue of nominal damages; 3) plaintiff did not preserve arguments related to award of punitive damages; and 4) plaintiff offered no evidence of pretext to counter defendant's motion for summary judgment on unlawful discharge claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/03/2006
• Published 08/03/2006

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and Stafford, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michelle Allot, with whom Daniel Bates, John Lemieux, and Farris Law were on brief, for appellant., Stephanie E.F. Jazlowiecki, with whom Jeffrey Neil Young, McTeague, Higbee, Case, Cohen, Whitney & Toker, P.A., Zachary L. Heiden, and Maine Civil Liberties Union Foundation, were on brief, for Maine Civil Liberties Union Foundation, amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lawrence C. Winger for appellee.