McDonough v. City of Quincy

How courts have described this case

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• finding punitive damages instruction warranted where plaintiff alleged retaliation for assisting with another employee’s sexual harassment claim
• holding out-of-court statements about police officer by city officials were properly admitted under Fed. R. Evid. 801(d)(2)(D) because officials were involved in personnel management and had made statements about a possible personnel action against the police officer
• discussing prior award upheld partly because of the plaintiffs testimony that the employment discrimination caused marriage to suffer
• vacating fee award when order failed 16 to state, among other things, the number of hours being 17 compensated or the hourly rate applied
• upholding award of $300,000 in Title VII retaliation case, where \the bulk\ of the award was for emotional distress in the form of humiliation and damage to reputation and family relationships
• finding no abuse of discretion in excluding evidence of prior lawsuit against the same defendant “[b]ecause the ‘charge of litigiousness is a serious one, likely to result in undue prejudice against the party charged’”

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