A state appeals court reduced to $25,000 from $65,000 the amount a female employee is due for the mental anguish and humiliation she contended she received because of sexually inappropriate comments at her Buffalo workplace.

The Appellate Division, Fourth Department, panel ruled that the phase of the award by the state Human Rights Commission in Brittany Fragale’s case was excessive when compared with similar hostile work place and discrimination cases in the department.

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