United States Fifth Circuit

Compensatory award of $300,000 for emotional damages remitted to $150,000 in action for failure to promote customs agent because of race and age, and in retaliation for previous filings with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/09/2002
• Published 04/09/2002

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before SMITH and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges, and LAKE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ronald H. Tonkin (argued), Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Marleigh D. Dover, Wendy M. Keats (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., App. Staff, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellant.