Krohn v. New York City Police Department

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from that portion of a June 2001 judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Gerard E. Lynch, J.) that vacated a punitive damages award in plaintiff Alli Katt’s1 gender discrimination suit on the ground that such damages were not available against a municipality in an action brought pursuant to New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”), N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 8-502(a). Katt v. City of New York, 151 F.Supp.2d 313 (S.D.N.Y.2001). In August 2003, we certified the controlling question of law in this case to the New…