WOODS v. START TREATMENT & RECOVERY CENTERS, INC.

No. 16-1318-cv August Term, 2016.

864 F.3d 158 (2017)

Cassandra WOODS, Plaintiff-Appellant, Tina Hinton, Plaintiff, v. START TREATMENT & RECOVERY CENTERS, INC., Defendant-Appellee, Addiction Research and Treatment Corporation, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 19, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ABDUL K. HASSAN , Queens Village, New York, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

DAVID M. POHL , New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee.

RACHEL GOLDBERG , Senior Attorney ( M. Patricia Smith , Solicitor of Labor, Jennifer S. Brand , Associate Solicitor, William C. Less-er , Deputy Associate Solicitor, Paul L. Frieden , Counsel for Appellate Litigation, on the brief), for R. Alexander Acosta , United States Secretary of Labor, Washington, D.C., as amicus curiae in support of Plaintiff-Appellant.

Before: Kearse, Hall, and Chin, Circuit Judges.


If a jury finds against Woods, but it was wrongly instructed on the law, can its verdict still stand? In this case, our answer is no.

Plaintiff-Appellant Cassandra Woods appeals a final judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Ann M. Donnelly, Judge) following a jury trial...

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