Netzel v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

PRESIDING JUSTICE FREEMAN

delivered the oninion of the court:

Plaintiff, Thomas Netzel, appeals from the trial court’s grant of a new trial on both liability and damages in his suit for retaliatory discharge against defendant, United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS). At trial, a jury found in plaintiff’s favor and awarded him $200,000 in compensatory damages.

This court’s prior opinion (Netzel v. United Parcel Service, Inc. (1987), 165 Ill. App. 3d 685, 520 N.E.2d 665), finding that plaintiff’s claim for retaliatory discharge had been preempted by section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act (29…