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California: Jail Nurse Receives $703,957 in Retaliation Suit Against County, PHS
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2012, page 48
On December 15, 2011, following a three-week trial, a federal jury in San Francisco awarded Freddie M. Davis, formerly employed at Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail, $528,957 in damages stemming from retaliation she experienced after she and other nurses complained about mistreatment from a supervisor.
Filed under:
Prison Health Services,
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Racial Discrimination,
Retaliation,
Retaliation against Staff,
Employee Litigation.
Location:
California.
The jury found former Alameda …
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