Akouri v. Florida Department of Transportation

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that absent any evidence proving compensatory damages, a court is justified in limiting a plaintiff ’s award of nominal damages to one dollar
• holding that a successful Title VII plaintiff was entitled only to nominal damages due to his failure to provide “any evidence whatsoever of his actual earnings while employed”
• indicating that an employer’s statement about a Lebanese employee’s accent was evidence of national-origin discrimination
• concluding a successful Title VII plaintiff was entitled only to nominal damages because he failed to provide evidence of his actual earnings while employed
• explaining that, although the defendant had raised objection to damages instruction at charge conference, the district court found it was better raised in a post-verdict motion
• upholding jury’s find- ing of discrimination when a supervisor “blatantly state[d] that the reason [the employee] was passed over for the promotion was his ethnicity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).