Caban-Wheeler v. Elsea

How courts have described this case

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• affirming an award of punitive damages in a § 1983 action because there was sufficient evidence that the defendants acted “maliciously, wantonly, or oppressive- ly”
• “A legal action under § 1983 entails the right to a jury trial . . . .”
• statement by black deci-sionmaker to white employee that he wanted a black person to have the white employee’s job constituted direct evidence that the employee was terminated for racially discriminatory reasons
• because the (1) (570 SE2d 1) (2002) (“Under OCGA § 9-11-12 (b) (1), a defendant can raise a plea in abatement, which is not an adjudication on the merits, that raises the issue of the lack of subject matter jurisdiction in the trial court . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).