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O'ROURKE v. CITY OF PROVIDENCE

Nos. 99-2346, 00-1008.

235 F.3d 713 (2001)

Julia M. O'ROURKE, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. CITY OF PROVIDENCE, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 8, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin F. McHugh, Assistant City Solicitor, for appellant.

Gerald C. DeMaria, with whom James A. Ruggieri, Higgins, Cavanagh & Cooney, and Patricia E. Andrews were on brief, for appellee.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, LYNCH and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

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...

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