Leola Bradshaw v. School Board of Broward Co.

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge:

This case concerns a state’s purported limitation on judgments against itself and its agencies, and what effect such a limitation has on a federal court judgment for violations of parallel federal and state civil rights statutes. A federal jury returned a verdict in favor of Leola Bradshaw against her employer, the School Board of Bro-ward County, Florida, finding that Bradshaw’s supervisor had sexually harassed her in violation of the Florida Civil Rights Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It found her entitled to $500,000 in compensatory damages for…