Green v. Jersey City Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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• holding that notwithstanding the Tort Claims Act's bar against the award of punitive damages against a public entity, punitive damages may be awarded appropriate in CEPA cases
• recognizing that a state appellate court is bound by dicta issued by its supreme court
• finding that defendant retaliated by moving teacher to a substandard classroom, lowering her performance evaluations, and engaging in other hostile acts until teacher resigned
• recognizing that CEPA permits award of punitive damages
• explaining that “adverse employment action” can include “many separate but relatively minor instances of behavior directed against an employee that may not be actionable individually but that combine to make up a pattern of retaliatory conduct”
• noting that retaliation under CEPA “can include . . . many separate but relatively minor instances of behavior directed against an employee that may not be actionable individually but that combine to make up a pattern of retaliatory conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).