A $5 million punitive damages award for a sustained, brutal campaign of racial harassment at a Lackawanna steel plant was knocked down Wednesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Though the abuse suffered by Elijah Turley was “extraordinary,” a three-judge panel in Turley v. ISG Lackawanna, 13-561, found that the $5 million award, already reduced from a jury’s $24 million, was excessive.
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