A Catholic school teacher -- who is a lesbian and was fired after she became pregnant through artificial insemination -- was awarded $170,000 today (June 3, 2013), after winning her anti-discrimination lawsuit against an Ohio archdiocese, according to the Associated Press website.
A federal jury found that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati discriminated against Christa Dias by firing her in October 2010.
The jury said the archdiocese should pay a total of $71,000 for back pay and compensatory damages and $100,000 in punitive damages. Dias -- who taught computer classes -- had sued the archdiocese and two of its schools; the jury did not find the schools liable for damages.
Dias' attorney, Robert Klingler, had argued she was fired simply because she was pregnant and unmarried, a dismissal he said violated state and federal law. He had suggested damages as high as $637,000, but Dias -- who now lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her lesbian partner and their 2-year-old daughter -- said she was satisfied with the jury's award.
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