Randy Bennett v. Riceland Foods

How courts have described this case

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• affirming that an emotional distress award of $300,000 was not so grossly excessive as to shock the judicial conscience
• stating the employee who was motivated by discriminatory animus was a supervisor over the plaintiffs
• affirming an award of $300,000 to each of two individuals who “testified to depression, extreme stress, worry, and sleeplessness”
• affirming the district court’s denial of remittitur of the jury’s award
• “We will not order a new trial or remittitur merely because we may have arrived at a different amount from the jury's award.”
• “Remittitur is appropriate where the verdict is so grossly excessive as to shock the judicial conscience.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).