Legal Opinion
Barbara ANNIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER, Ernest J. Colaneri, and Anthony M. Mosca, Defendants-Appellants
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 28, 1998No. 348, 96-9647(L), 96-9705(CON)PublishedCited by 305 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MeLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:
Following a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Connor, J.), plaintiff was awarded a total of $541,001 in compensatory and punitive damages for violation of her constitutional right to be free from gender discrimination. Upon the defendants’ motion for judgment as a matter of law or for a new trial, the district court denied the former, but granted a remittitur, which the plaintiff accepted in order to avoid a new trial solely on damages, reducing the damage award to a total of $225,001. Defendants now appeal. For the…
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