After a jury awarded a plaintiff $300,000 in damages in a sexual harassment case, a federal district

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After a jury awarded a plaintiff $300,000 in damages in a sexual harassment case, a federal district court judge reduced the awarded to $50,000. The judge did so because at the time of the jury’s verdict, the plaintiff’s employer had twenty-five employees, and Title VII caps damages for employers with no more than 100 employees at a maximum of $50,000. However, four years earlier, when the harassment occurred, the employer had 247 employees. Was the judge correct in capping damages awarded to the plaintiff based on the employer’s size at the time of the jury’s verdict rather than at the time when the discrimination occurred? Why or why not? Hernandez-Miranda v. Empresas Diaz Masso, Inc., 651 F.3d 167 (1st Cir. 2011).

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