An appeals court has reversed a 2008 verdict awarding $1.2 million to a DuPont Chambers Works chemical engineer who claimed his safety complaints to supervisors and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration drew reprisals, including a forced eight-week leave that resulted in lost overtime pay. Ballard Spahr partner David S. Fryman tells the New Jersey Law Journal that the reversal is a just ruling for his client because there was no retaliation. The appeals court found that the trial judge erred in denying DuPont Chambers Works' motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. The appeals court judges threw out the pay damages and a $523,000 fee because there was no constructive discharge or termination, a requirement they referenced in citing an earlier ruling in a N.J. Law Against Discrimination case they said applied to the chemical engineer's Conscientious Employee Protection Act claims.