HR Management & Compliance

E-Alert Item: Gender Discrimination: Cap on Lawsuit Damages Doesn’t Discriminate Against Women

By Jennifer Carsen Jan 1, 2003 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 18, 2015

After a jury awarded Jill Lansdale $1.1 million in her gender-bias lawsuit against Hi-Health Supermarket in Arizona, a court promptly reduced the award to $200,000, which is the maximum permitted under federal Title VII (for employers the size of Hi-Health). Lansdale argued that the cap discriminated against women, especially because race-bias suits aren’t subject to the same limit. But the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers California, said that the cap wasn’t gender biased, in light of the fact that it applied to lawsuits by both men and women.

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