and front pay available to her under Circuit City’s arbitration agreement, she could receive only $162,000 in punitive damages, less than sixty percent of the $300,000 she could potentially obtain under Title VII. Furthermore, whereas Title VII would allow Morrison to collect a total compensatory and punitive damages award of $300,000, even if no backpay or front pay award had been given, Circuit City’s arbitration agreement would allow only a $5,000 punitive damages award in such a case. Likewise, whereas Title VII would allow Morrison to collect up to $300,000 in punitive damages, even if only nominal damages were awarded, Circuit City’s arbitration agreement would limit any such an award to $5,000. See Timm v. Progressive Steel Treating, Inc., 137 F.3d 1008, 1010 (7th Cir.1998) (<HOLDING>); Beauford v. Sisters of Mercy-Province of
holding that conduct must be beyond the fraud which supported compensatory damages to award punitive damages holding that when compensatory damages are nominal a much higher ratio of punitive damages to compensatory damages can be contemplated holding that punitive damages are available in an intentional discrimination action even if the jury does not assess compensatory damages holding compensatory and punitive damages constitute legal remedies holding that punitive damages do not need to be proportional to compensatory damages