Legal Opinion
Madeline NORRIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HARTMARX SPECIALTY STORES, INC., Defendant-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 3, 1990No. 90-1038PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUHÉ, Circuit Judge.
Hartmarx Specialty Stores, Inc. appeals a judgment awarding Madeline Norris actual damages and attorneys’ fees under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. (1982). Norris now seeks an award for the additional attorneys’ fees incurred on appeal. We affirm the district court’s award of actual damages. We remand the case to the district court, however, to give reasons for its award of attorneys’ fees.
Three black women, Madeline Norris, Patricia Woods, and Gayla Jackson, had been managers in the Dallas branch of Hart-marx, a chain of specialty…
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