Cruz LOPEZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. S.B. THOMAS, INC., Defendant-Appellee

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• recognizing that a court need not address the sufficiency of proof for damages because a plaintiff “may be entitled to nominal damages upon proof of a violation of a constitutional right”
• concluding “there can be no question that [ § 1981] includes persons like plaintiff who are of Puerto Rican descent”
• finding that notice of an impending termination could be considered a 14 constructive discharge by a trier of fact
• finding that a plaintiff’s 90-day probationary period was an adverse action when his supervisor told him that he would be fired at the end of the period “regardless of his performance”
• finding genuine issue of material fact on inference of discrimination but not for claim of hostile work environment
• holding evidence of constructive discharge when a supervisor told an employee “he would be fired at the end of [a] . . . probationary period no matter what he did to improve his allegedly deficient performance”

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