Legal Opinion
Julia M. O'ROuRke v. City of Providence
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 8, 2001No. 99-2346, 00-1008PublishedCited by 358 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Two different juries have now found the Providence Fire Department liable under Title VII to one of its first women firefighters, Julia O’Rourke, for that form of sex discrimination known as sexual harassment. O’Rourke asks us to reinstate the first verdict for $275,000. The City defends the trial court’s decision to vacate that verdict and order a new trial but complains that the second verdict, for $200,000, based on evidence over a shorter period of time, is unsound.
We conclude that the trial court erred when it vacated the first verdict on the grounds that evidence…
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