Legal Opinion
Polacco v. Curators of the University
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 11, 1994No. Nos. 93-3094, 94-1591PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
The University of Missouri at Columbia appeals a judgment awarding assistant professor Mary Polaeco $100,000 in backpay and $60,000 in compensatory damages on her claim that the University discriminated on the basis of sex when it terminated her research funding. The University argues that it is entitled to judgment as a matter of law because Polacco failed to prove her case, and that the compensatory damage award is an impermissible retroactive application of § 102(a) of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, Pub.L. 102-166, 105 Stat. 1071. Polacco separately appeals the district…
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