Knowlton v. Teltrust Phones, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that where the evidence supported a finding that management was “unmistakably aware” of the hostile environment and of the supervisor’s behavior, but was “unresponsive” to the plaintiffs complaint, the issue of punitive damages was properly submitted to the jury
• holding the “heart of the [single-employer] inquiry is whether there is an absence of an arm’s-length relationship”
• “Because the sanction [of the mandatory presumption] was not a default, however, the presumption was rebuttable.”
• “By failing to timely raise the issue to the district court, [the defendant] waived the issue[.]”
• In holding that evidence existed from which a jury could award punitive damages in a Title VII action, the Tenth Circuit stated that the “management’s reaction to [the plaintiffs] complaint was unresponsive.”
• applying integrated-enterprise test because parties assumed its application

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).