Legal Opinion
Perez v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 21, 2004No. 03-50985PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:
A jury returned a verdict in favor of Javier Perez in his employment discrimination action against his former employer, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (“TDCJ”). Claiming that the district court erroneously excluded evidence, misin-structed the jury and improperly denied its motion for judgment as a matter of law, TDCJ appeals.
Perez was a lieutenant at the TDCJ’s Connally Unit. In August, 1996 Perez was arrested and charged with felony assault for the off-duty stabbing of a fellow patron of Little Joe’s Bar in Victoria, Texas. The victim, Santiago…
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