United States Second Circuit

The standard for imposition of punitive damages under federal law for employment discrimination claims, malice and reckless indifference, applies as well to the New York City Administrative Code.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/24/2001
• Decided 08/01/2001
• Published 08/01/2001

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge:, Before JACOBS, PARKER and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Louie Nikolaidis,Lewis, Greenwald, Clifton & Nikolaidis, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appelles.


• For Appellees:
  
• John A. Ridley, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, Newark, NJ, for Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appelant.