Shear Cuts, Inc. v. Littlejohn

OPINION

DIXON W. HOLMAN, Justice.

In this employment discrimination case, Appellant Shear Cuts, Inc. appeals the trial court’s judgment and $107,123.50 award in favor of Appellee Kay Littlejohn. We modify the trial court’s judgment to delete the award of punitive damages and otherwise affirm the trial court’s judgment.

Factual and PRocedural Background

Littlejohn is an African-American licensed cosmetologist who applied for a position at one of Shear Cuts’ fourteen hair salons located throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex in the Fall of 2001. Although the parties disagree on the…