Wednesday, November 1, 2006
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently held that res judicata did not preclude a former employee from seeking damages under Title VII that were unavailable in her prior successful action before a state agency under Connecticut's anti-discrimination law. Nestor v. Pratt & Whitney , 2006 WL 2827236 (2d Cir. Oct. 4, 2006).