· 9/11/1996
Donna Patterson Nicholas Brown, and Michael L. Adams v. P.H.P. Healthcare Corporation Mark Kennedy
Citations
- 90 F.3d 927
How courts have described this case
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- vacating Title VII emotional distress award and remanding to district court with instructions to award nominal damages; amount not specified
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- “Although we generally defer to the fact finder in determining intangible harms, an award is warranted only when a sufficient causal connection exists between the statutory violation and the alleged injury.”
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Judges: Duhé, Barksdale, Demoss
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