Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Spencer Press of Maine, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 16, 2004No. 03-1999, 03-2069PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
These are cross-appeals in a Title VII religious discrimination case. A jury found Spencer Press of Maine liable for the harassment of its employee Albert Johnson on account of his religion and awarded compensatory and punitive damages, respectively $400,000 and $750,000, the sum of which was reduced to the statutory cap of $300,000. 42 U.S.C. § 1981a(b)(3)(D); Me.Rev.Stat. Ann. tit. 5, § 4613(2)(B)(8)(e)(iv). Johnson was repeatedly harassed over the course of his nine-year employment in Spencer Press’s janitorial department by his supervisor, Steven Halasz.
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