Continental Eagle Corp. v. Mokrzycki

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The corporate defendant and its personnel director, John L. Fiddler, appeal from a judgment based on a jury verdict on a retaliatory discharge claim.1 The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, David Mokrzycki, in the amount of $122,240 compensatory damages and $100,000 punitive damages. We affirm.

Mokrzycki, alleging retaliatory discharge, sued under Ala. Code 1975, § 25-5-11.1. He claimed that Continental Eagle Corporation ("CEC") terminated his…