Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert

Summary

The court held that the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities could identify a Title VII violation as the predicate for a state-law violation and award emotional-distress damages and attorney's fees under the applicable Connecticut statutes. It further held that the state had not waived sovereign immunity for prejudgment or postjudgment interest, that the referee's limitation to garden-variety emotional-distress evidence was not an excessive discovery sanction but that treatment-related testimony was improperly admitted, and that the injunction was improperly vacated. The judgment was therefore affirmed in part, reversed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for a new damages hearing and further consideration of injunctive relief.