United States Second Circuit

In a case under Title VII, an award of compensatory or nominal damages is not a prerequisite to an award of punitive damages.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/18/2001
• Decided 11/19/2001
• Published 11/19/2001

Judges

• LEVAL, Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN, LEVAL, and SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ira G. Rosenstein (Siobhan A. Handley and Cathleen O'Donnell, on the brief), Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, NY, for defendant-appellant-cross-appellee., Charmaine M. Stewart, Esq. (Nadira Stewart, on the brief), Elmont, NY, for plaintiff-appellee-cross-appellant., Julie L. Gantz (C. Gregory Stewart, Philip B. Sklover, and Vincent J. Blackwood, on the brief), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as amicus curiae in support of plaintiff-appellee.