Multi-Million Dollar Sexual Harassment Judgment Affirmed in Part

August 27, 2004 in Case Summaries

Jeff Levinger represented a terminated employee in the appeal of a $10.5 million judgment based on the intentional infliction of emotional distress and sexual harassment.  The Texas Supreme Court reversed the judgment based on intentional infliction but affirmed as to sexual harassment.  Hoffmann LaRoche v. Zeltwanger, 69 S.W.3d 634 (Tex. App. – Corpus Christi 2002), rev’d and remanded in part, 144 S.W.3d 438 (Tex. 2004).