aMONEY DAMAGES Section 102 of the new Civil Rights Act provides that an employee who is claiming intentional discrimination (disparate treatment) can ask for (1) compensatory damages and (2) punitive damages, if it can be shown the employer engaged in discrimination “with malice or reckless ind...
Schlapprizzi cited the McDonald's coffee-spill case as an innovative use of punitive damages. In that case, the woman who said she was scalded by a too-hot cup of coffee got $2.9 million in punitive damages. The money, to the penny, equaled two days of McDonald's coffee sales ...