United States Fifth Circuit

In a suit against an employer alleging gender discrimination in a decision to terminate plaintiff's employment, judgment as a matter of law for defendant is reversed where there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict that defendant terminated plaintiff because of her pregnancy. The district court's remittance of the punitive damage award is affirmed where the court correctly applied the statutory cap on damages.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/26/2007
• Published 07/26/2007

Judges

• BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and BENAVIDES and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Savannah Lina Robinson (argued), Danbury, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nancy Louise Waters (argued), James Nick Zoys, Geary, Porter & Donovan, Addison, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.