Two years after winning $2 million in a sexual harassment suit against the Atlanta sports bar chain Jocks & Jills and its founder, the company’s former female manager has lost that judgment in a retrial of the case.
The latest jury, which rendered a verdict in U.S. District Court in Atlanta last month that former Jocks & Jills manager Tracey L. Tomczyk had not proven her sexual harassment claims, was the third to hear the nine-year-old case. Two other verdicts — one in 2004 that found for Jocks & Jills LLC and company founder Joseph R. Rollins, and a second in 2006 that found for Tomczyk and awarded her $2.25 million — were appealed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Both of the earlier verdicts were reversed and remanded by the appellate court.
