Estwick v. U.S.Air Shuttle

How courts have described this case

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• holding that after plaintiff’s death, “[t]he punitive damages are plainly penal and must be dismissed under either federal or state law”
• holding that defect in plaintiff’s standing without appointment as administratrix was cured by plaintiff’s subsequent appointment thereof and reasoning that ruling otherwise would be “contrary to the liberal policy underlying [Rule 17(a)]”
• finding that plaintiff had “cured” her “standing deficiency” after her “subsequent appointment as administratrix”
• dismissing claims for punitive damages under Title VII, ADEA, and ADA, but permitting the compensatory damages claims to continue
• rejecting argument that plaintiff’s complaint should be dismissed because plaintiff was not named as an administratrix of her husband’s estate at the time the complaint was filed, finding such a result would be “contrary to the liberal policy underlying [Rule 17(a)]”
• “The punitive damages are plainly penal and must be dismissed under either federal or state law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).