Robert J. Downes v. Volkswagen of America, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding no abuse of discretion when district court calculated pro rata shares of automobile expense and pension benefits to fashion front pay award
• no abuse of discretion in awarding 3 years’ front pay despite recent and impeding restructurings that cut workforce by 60 percent
• “It is, of course, true that a front pay award must be grounded in available facts, acceptable to a reasonable person and not highly speculative.”
• front pay awards “must be grounded in available facts, acceptable to a reasonable person and not highly speculative”
• “a front pay award must be grounded in available facts, acceptable to a reasonable person and not highly speculative”
• court has discretion to award front pay as equitable relief when reinstatement is not “appropriate”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).