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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2000e Job Discrimination (Employment)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS

JONESBORO DIVISION

RAY NASSAR and GENA SMITH, 

Plaintiffs

V.

EARNESTINE JACKSON,

individually and in her official

capacity as a Hughes School Board

Member, ET AL.

Defendants

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NO: 3:11CV00133 SWW

ORDER 

Plaintiffs Ray Nassar (“Nassar”) and Gena Smith (“Smith”) brought this 

employment dispute under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, and 42

U.S.C. § 1983 against the Hughes School District (“District”), Hughes school board

member Earnestine Jackson (“Jackson”), and the Hughes superintendent of schools. On

January 22, 2013, a jury returned verdicts in Plaintiffs’ favor. The District and Jackson

appealed, and the Eighth Circuit affirmed in part but also held that this Court erred in

sustaining Nassar’s $340,000 damage award. 

In accordance with the Eighth Circuit’s mandate dated March 24, 2015, Nassar is

offered reduced damages in the amount of $245,639.38. Should Nassar refuse this offer,

the Court will schedule a second trial. Nassar has up to and including fourteen (14) days

from the entry date of this order to file notice stating whether he accepts the Court’s offer

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of remittitur.

IT IS SO ORDERED THIS 25TH DAY OF MARCH, 2015.

/s/Susan Webber Wright

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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