Article
Overruling the Jury: Duncan v. GMC and Appellate Treatment of Hostile Work Environment Judgments
Yale Law & Policy Review
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Disciplines
Abstract
In 2002, the Eighth Circuit reversed a one million dollar jury award to the plaintiff in a sexual harassment suit against General Motors Corporation. This reversal demonstrates the danger of appellate review of such verdicts, limiting sexual harassment verdicts to the lowest common denominator in that circuit.
Citation Information
Dara Purvis. "Overruling the Jury: Duncan v. GMC and Appellate Treatment of Hostile Work Environment Judgments" Yale Law & Policy Review Vol. 24 (2006) p. 485 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dara_purvis/7/
This article was originally written as a student note.