STEPHENS v. SOUTH ATLANTIC CANNERS, INC.

No. 87-2605.

848 F.2d 484 (1988)

Marion STEPHENS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SOUTH ATLANTIC CANNERS, INC. (COCA COLA COMPANY); Edward T. Mizell, General Manager; Rance Medlin, Supervisor; Junior Hopkins, Supervisor, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 8, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles T. Speth, II (Vereen A. Dennis, Robert S. Phifer, Haynsworth, Baldwin, Miles, Johnson, Greaves & Edwards, P.A., on brief), for defendants-appellants.

Stuart W. Snow (Richard G. Dusenbury, Dusenbury & Snow, P.A., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WILKINSON and WILKINS, Circuit Judges, and MacKENZIE, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


WILKINS, Circuit Judge:

Marion Stephens, Jr. charged the Defendants with race discrimination. On his claim under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1981 (West 1981), the jury awarded compensatory damages in the amount of $100,000.00 and punitive damages in the amount of $85,000.00. The court subsequently entered judgment on his Title VII claim awarding no additional monetary relief and denying any other potential relief, an order from which Stephens does not appeal.

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