William G. Tullis v. Townley Engineering & Manufacturing Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiff can support an award for nonpecuniary loss by relying solely on her own testimony about her emotional distress
• affirming an award in excess of $80,000 for retaliatory discharge that caused a dedicated employee who remained out of work for ten months to feel “low” and “degraded”
• distinguishing a case that “involved emotional distress only and not inconvenience”
• emotional damages may be established by the testimony of the plaintiff alone and do not necessarily require further support from medical records
• “The jury was able to observe [the plaintiff]Tullis when he was testifying and they apparently found his testimony to be sincere and sufficient to convince them that he merited the award they gave him.”
• when comparing to past awards, courts may take inflation into account

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).