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New Jersey Supreme Court Upholds $1.6 Million Harassment Verdict
Loaded on May 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2004, page 22
by Matthew T. Clarke
Filed under:
Staff-Staff Harassment,
Discrimination,
Gender Discrimination -- Men,
Retaliation against Staff,
Attorney Fee Awards,
Damages,
Employee Litigation.
Location:
New Jersey.
The Supreme Court of New Jersey up-held one of the largest female-on-male sexual harassment compensatory damage awards and fees, sending the even larger punitive damage award back to the trial court for reconsideration.
Robert L. Lockley, a New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) guard filed suit ...
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