Lee v. Giangreco

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “just cause” for termination of a teacher’s contract may turn on budgetary constraints
• “We are confident that the district court, having heard firsthand the witnesses ... was in the best position to assess the credibility of [the plaintiffs] claims and her resultant injury.”
• assessment of damages is a matter left to the sound discretion of the jury
• departure from the jury’s assessment of damages is only appropriate “when the verdict is (1) flagrantly excessive or inadequate; (2) so out of reason as to shock the conscience or sense of justice; (3) presumptively the result of passion, prejudice, or other ulterior motive; or (4

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).