§ 46a-58
- Citation
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- Parent Document
- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut (state)
- Effective Date
- 2022-04-26
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- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
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with respect to the Title VII issue.
II
PREJUDGMENT AND POSTJUDGMENT INTEREST—
SOVERIEGN IMMUNITY
We next consider whether the trial court properly
concluded that the state has waived its sovereign immu-
nity with respect to prejudgment and postjudgment
interest on awards under § 46a-86. The commission con-
tends that, by waiving immunity to suit and to liability
under § 46a-51 (10), which provides in relevant part
supra, 2014 WL 1032765, *3 n.5, *4 n.8 (citing Connecticut cases). The
appendix to the commission’s trial brief contains more than 70 decisions,
dating back to 1999, in which the commission resolved Title VII claims
under the auspices of § 46a-58 (a). The commission is not alone in this
regard. See Employment Security Commission v. Peace, 128 N.C. App. 1,
7–9, 493 S.E.2d 466 (1997) (North Carolina State Personnel Commission
adjudicated Title VII claim), aff’d in part and dismissed in part, 349 N.C.
315, 507 S.E.2d 272 (1998); see also Carey v. New York Gaslight Club, Inc.,
supra, 598 F.2d 1257–58 (New York State Division of Human Rights resolved
‘‘Title VII claim’’ in contested hearing ‘‘pursuant to Title VII’’). The commis-
sion also is not the only state agency to be authorized under Connecticut
law to identify violations of federal statutes and to impose remedies for those
violations under state law. See, e.g., General Statutes § 36a-606a (money
laundering); General Statutes § 36a-719f (mortgage loan servicing); General
Statutes § 36a-812 (debt collection); General Statutes § 36a-853 (student
loan servicing).
As early as 2006, following the decision of this court in Commission on
Human Rights & Opportunities v. Board of Education, supra, 270 Conn. 665,
the commission formally took the position that a ‘‘complainant’s inclusion
of . . . § 46a-58 (a) in her complaint affidavit allows [the commission] to
convert her federal claims into claims under Connecticut’s antidiscrimina-
tion laws, and to award damages for emotional distress pursuant to . . .
§ 46a-86 (c).’’ Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities ex rel. DiMi-
cco v. Neil Roberts, Inc., No. 0420438, 2006 WL 4753465, *4 (C.H.R.O. Septem-
ber 12, 2006). As we discussed, reasonable, long-standing, formally
articulated interpretations of a statute by an administrative agency are enti-
tled to deference. Although the branch contends that the commission’s
interpretation is not time-tested and, thus, not entitled to deference, the
branch fails to explain why a string of decisions going back more than
fifteen years does not satisfy that standard.
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