Enlarge / Tesla manufacturing facility in Fremont, California on October 19, 2022. (credit score: Getty Photos | Justin Sullivan )
A former Tesla manufacturing facility employee who rejected a $15 million payout in a racial discrimination lawsuit has been awarded simply $3.2 million after a brand new damages trial. A federal jury verdict reached yesterday gave plaintiff Owen Diaz $Three million in punitive damages and $175,000 in compensatory damages.
After the primary trial, in October 2021, a jury in US District Court docket for the Northern District of California dominated that Tesla ought to pay $137 million to Diaz. In April 2022, US District Choose William Orrick decreased the award to $15 million, saying that was the best quantity supported by the proof and legislation.
Diaz rejected the choose’s $15 million award and sought a brand new trial on damages solely. The choose’s ultimate directions to the eight-person jury stated, “It has been conclusively decided that Tesla is liable to Mr. Diaz for: (1) making a hostile work setting primarily based on race in violation of federal legislation, (2) failing to forestall racial harassment in violation of federal legislation, and (3) negligently retaining and supervising a number of of Mr. Diaz’s supervisors in violation of California state legislation.”
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