United States Fifth Circuit

There was sufficient evidence for the jury to have found that defendant employer retaliated against plaintiff because he engaged in the protected activities of filing a discrimination complaint and giving a deposition in a separate employment discrimination suit. The compensatory damages award was not excessive.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/30/2003
• Published 12/30/2003

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before DAVIS and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges, and LITTLE , District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Louis Blumenfeld,Mendel & Blumenfeld, El Paso, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Michael Vincent Galo, Jr., Christine Elaine Reinhard, David Montgomery Evans, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, San Antonio, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.