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092732P.pdf 08/25/2010 Carol Fuller v. Fiber Glass Systems
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 09-2732
and No: 09-3481
and No: 09-3482
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Murphy and Beam, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - employment discrimination. Evidence was sufficient to
permit a reasonable juror to find that the work environment was
permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule and insult based on
plaintiff's race; a reasonable juror could find that plaintiff did not
unreasonably fail to take advantage of corrective/preventive opportunities
offered by the defendant and that the defendant was not entitled to
judgment as a matter of law on the Ellerth-Faragher affirmative defense;
evidence was sufficient to support the jury's damage award, and the
amount of the award was not excessive; jury instructions on hostile work
environment tracked the Eighth Circuit Civil Jury Instructions and the
wording of the instructions was not error; verdict forms and jury
instructions as a whole adequately stated the law of the circuit; ministerial
tasks of supervising a jury and a receiving a verdict on behalf of an
Article III judge may be delegated to a magistrate judge; attorneys' fees
award affirmed.