United States Fifth Circuit

Sufficient evidence supported a punitive damages award under the Fair Housing Act, based on a landlord's misrepresentations of an apartment's unavailability, but the award must be remitted from $100,000 to $55,000 in order to comport with due process.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/07/2003
• Published 08/07/2003

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and REAVLEY and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Edward McKnight, Jr. (argued), Murphy & McKnight, Maureen Blackburn Jennings, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Henry L. Klein (argued), James Harold Daigle, Jr., Klein Daigle, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.