Jury finds for Cincinnati teacher fired from Catholic school while pregnant

[justiceischeap]

CINCINNATI — A Catholic-school teacher who was fired after she became pregnant through artificial insemination won her anti-discrimination lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati yesterday and was awarded more than $170,000.

A federal jury found that the archdiocese discriminated against Christa Dias, who taught computer classes, by firing her in October 2010.

Dias declined to comment after the verdict but said later in a telephone interview that she was “ very happy and relieved.”

The jury said the archdiocese should pay $51,000 in back pay, $20,000 in compensatory damages and $100,000 in punitive damages. Dias had sued the archdiocese and two of its schools; the jury didn’t find the schools liable for damages.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/06/03/jury-finds-for-cincinnati-teacher-fired-while-pregnant.html

Good for that jury!

[Phentex]

1. Hard to believe this is

2013.

Even in 2010 this was unbelievable.

Glad the jury was awake!