United States Fourth Circuit

The jury's award of punitive damages in a failure to promote action based on racial and retaliatory conduct is reversed where employer had an extensively implemented, organization-wide Equal Employment Opportunity Policy and a carefully developed diversity training program.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/27/2003
• Published 06/27/2003

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Richard James Morgan, McNair Law Firm, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  David Eliot Rothstein, Gergel, Nickles & Solomon, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:Reginald Wayne Belcher, McNair Law Firm, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.