Kohn v. City of Minneapolis Fire Department

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that \discriminatory acts that persist over a period of time may constitute continuing violations\
• concluding that district court did not err in grouping all minorities together because number of Hispanics affected was too small to stand alone and there was similar past history of discrimination against other minority groups
• stating that findings of fact related to damages, like other findings, are reviewed for clear error
• stating that when a court finds unfair discriminatory practice, it may award compensatory damages “in an amount up to three times the actual damages sustained.”
• noting that the district court multiplied award for emotional harm
• reversing damages award but allowing loss of reputation claim in MHRA action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).