[Download] "Greenway v. Buffalo Hilton Hotel" by Second Circuit U.S. Court Of Appeals * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Greenway v. Buffalo Hilton Hotel
- Author : Second Circuit U.S. Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 30, 1998
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
Description
On this appeal we have before us an employee who a jury found had been discriminated against by an employer on account of his disability in violation of federal and state law; that is, there was a wrong against plaintiff from the start. Yet that same employee later also failed to take such action as lay within his power to mitigate his damages flowing from the initial loss of employment. Now we are called upon to decide what duties and responsibilities were imposed upon each of the parties before us and what consequences follow from their failure to abide by applicable rules. Because the employee, after several months of temporary work, did not seek any further employment, he thereby failed to mitigate his damages and, as a result, loses entitlement to compensatory damages to which he might otherwise have been entitled. But, for the discriminatory wrong he suffered in being fired, the employee is entitled to the punitive damages awarded him by the jury, plus interest, costs, and attorneys fees awarded him by the trial court.