HERNÁNDEZ-MIRANDA v. EMPRESAS DÍAZ MASSÓ

No. 10-1639.

651 F.3d 167 (2011)

Edna M. HERNÁNDEZ-MIRANDA, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. EMPRESAS DÍAZ MASSÓ, INC., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 29, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francisco M. López-Romo, for appellant.

Anne Noel Occhialino, Attorney, with whom P. David Lopez, General Counsel, Carolyn L. Wheeler, Acting Associate General Counsel, and Lorraine C. Davis, Assistant General Counsel, were on brief, for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, amicus curiae.

Miguel Simonet Sierra, for appellee.

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


LYNCH, Chief Judge.

This appeal raises questions of first impression for this circuit as to the proper interpretation of the caps on compensatory and punitive damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1981a(b)(3) in a Title VII employment discrimination action.

The Civil Rights Act of 1991, Pub.L. No. 102-166, authorized the recovery of previously unavailable types of damages in Title VII actions involving intentional discrimination. Pub.L. No. 102-166, § 102; 42...

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