5th Circuit Orders Relief Reconsideration After $1 Jury Verdict In Bias Suit

Mealey's (March 28, 2019, 9:41 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A trial court must reconsider its denial of reinstatement for an employee who convinced a jury that she had been the victim of bias on the job as the court incorrectly considered two factors when denying that form of prospective relief after the jury awarded the plaintiff $1, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled March 26 (Sheaneter J. Bogan v. MTD Consumer Group, Incorporated, No. 17-60697, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 9006)....