Legal Opinion
Linda Place, Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Abbott Laboratories, Defendant-Appellant/cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 1, 2000No. 99-2418, 99-2971PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
We hope this musty Title VII case is one of the last we will see in which events straddle the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. And we say good riddance to such cases for they put the district court in the delicate position of parceling out what must be decided by the judge and what may be decided by a jury. A good deal of this saga preceded the pivotal date of November 21, 1991, when the new law for the first time gave Title VII litigants the right to a jury trial and allowed plaintiffs to seek punitive and compensatory damages. 42 U.S.C. § 1981a.…
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