Legal Opinion
Lisetta Molnar v. Lloyd Booth and East Chicago Community School Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 2, 2000No. 98-4047, 98-4056, 98-4127 and 98-4291PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
This appeal comes to us from a jury’s verdict in favor of plaintiff Lisetta Molnar on her sexual harassment claims against the East Chicago Community School Corporation (East Chicago) and Lloyd Booth, the principal of the junior high school where she taught. She based these claims on both Title VII and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In addition to a modest award of $500 in compensatory damages, the jury awarded $25,000 in punitive damages against Booth and the court added $65,760 in attorneys’ fees against both defendants. The defendants’ appeals are based principally on the…
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