In a decision that will be officially released next week, the Connecticut Supreme Court has, at last, ruled that punitive damages are not an available remedy for state law employment discrimination claims.
You may recall that I discussed the Appellate Court’s decision that had originally found the
In yesterday’s post, I talked about the case of Tomick v. UPS in looking at the prima facie case for disability discrimination.
But the new Appellate Court case may be even more significant for its discussion of punitive damages. In doing so, the Appellate Court attempts to resolve a split that had developed at the
Back in September 2013, I reported on a seemingly never-ending case of Tomick v. UPS and mentioned that it was headed to its second appeal at the Connecticut Appellate Court. (I talked about the history of the case and the first appeal back in 2012 too. Amazingly, it dates to a termination decision way
Last year, I posted about a disability discrimination that was remanded, in part, back to the Superior Court level. Would this result in at least a partial victory for the employer? And more importantly, what would happen on a remand to the lower court?
I noted back then the Court did uphold “most of a
The Connecticut Appellate Court released three significant employment law decisions on Monday — one of the busiest days in recent memory for the court.
For employers, the cases are a mixed bag but do provide some useful practice pointers.
City Sheriff Was Not an “Employee” Entitled to Statutory Protection
In Young v. Bridgeport, the Court