{"id":115135,"date":"2025-04-16T12:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T20:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=115135"},"modified":"2025-04-16T12:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T20:54:04","slug":"judge-rescinds-100k-jury-award-for-employees-emotional-distress-claims-large-payout-still-looming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/16\/judge-rescinds-100k-jury-award-for-employees-emotional-distress-claims-large-payout-still-looming\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rescinds $100K Jury Award for Employee’s Emotional Distress Claims, Large Payout Still Looming"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal judge revoked a $100,000 compensatory damages award in favor of an employee for emotional damages. However, the plaintiff may be entitled to lost pay and benefits. Given the length of time between his 2013 termination and the jury’s verdict in January, “the award could be substantial,” U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer said.<\/p>\n

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A federal judge revoked a $100,000 compensatory damages award in favor of an employee for emotional damages. However, the plaintiff may be entitled to lost pay and benefits. Given the length of time between his 2013 termination and the jury’s verdict in January, “the award could be substantial,” U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer said.<\/p>\n

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A federal judge revoked a $100,000 compensatory damages award in favor of an employee for emotional damages. However, the plaintiff may be entitled to lost pay and benefits. Given the length of time between his 2013 termination and the jury’s verdict in January, “the award could be substantial,” U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer said. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/legal-news-ODxjy0.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115150,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115135\/revisions\/115150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}