United States Fourth Circuit

In a Title VII sex-based harassment action, because there is no evidence that the employer had the knowledge required for liability in punitive damages, the award of punitive damages is reversed, however compensatory damages are affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/18/2003
• Published 07/18/2003

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, and WIDENER, WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, LUTTIG, WILLIAMS, MICHAEL, MOTZ, TRAXLER, KING, GREGORY, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Charles Franklin Thompson, Jr., Tally, Malone, Thompson & Gregory, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  William Elvin Hopkins, Jr., McCutchen, Blanton, Rhodes & Johnson, L.L.P., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.  Louis Lopez, Office of General, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Commission.   ON BRIEF:Michael D. Malone, Tally, Malone, Thompson & Gregory, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Nicholas M. Inzeo, Acting Deputy General, Philip B. Sklover, Associate General, Lorraine C. Davis, Assistant General, Office of General Counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Commission.  Michael L. Foreman, Audrey A. Jordan, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae Committee, et al.  Wendy N. Hess, Murnaghan Appellate Advocacy Fellow, Public Justice Center, Baltimore, Maryland, for Amici Curiae Center, et al.