A federal jury has awarded more than $100,000, including $80,000 in punitive damages, to a former cashier at a Macon supermarket after finding that she had been sexually harassed by her supervisor.
But the damages that plaintiff Taharra Hakim can actually collect will be limited to just over $50,000 because federal law caps compensatory and punitive damages at $50,000 and back pay for small companies like the grocery in question said Hakim’s lawyer, Eleanor M. Attwood.
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