Erica Benson SPLUNGE, Sandra Calhoun, Tisha Scott, Jo Catherine Smoot, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SHONEY’S, INC., Defendant-Appellant

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• holding that a supervisor of multiple restaurants in a restaurant chain was not high enough on the corporate hierarchy to show the defendant corporation “acted with the state of mind required for the imposition of punitive damages”
• “[C]onsidering the plain language of the statute and the limited case law, we conclude that, at least ordinarily, constructive knowledge alone is insufficient to authorize the award of punitive damages under section 1981a.”

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