Angeline S. Protos v. Volkswagen of America, Inc.

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• finding that plaintiff established a prima facie case of religious discrimination, in part, because her “religion forbade her to work on Saturdays.”
• upholding on clear error review the district court’s finding of no undue hardship based on the lower court’s familiarity with the evidence and witness credibility findings
• disagreeing with the Fourth Circuit’s holding in Jordan v. North Carolina Nat’l Bank, 565 F.2d 72 (4th Cir. 1977), that demand for every Saturday off “was so unlimited and absolute in scope...that [it] speaks its own unreasonableness and is thus beyond accommodation”
• “In addition to her religious accom- modation argument, [the plaintiff] maintains that she prevailed in the district court on a disparate treatment claim”
• compensatory damages are not available under Title VII
• punitive damages are not available under Title VII

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