NEW YORK, March 28 — A trial kicked off in San Francisco federal court yesterday to determine how much money Tesla Inc must pay to a Black elevator operator who a jury determined...
NEW YORK, March 28 — A trial kicked off in San Francisco federal court yesterday to determine how much money Tesla Inc must pay to a Black elevator operator who a jury determined was subjected to severe racial harassment while working at the electric auto maker’s flagship assembly plant.
The trial is scheduled to last five days. Last year, a judge slashed the US$137 million verdict that the jury awarded in 2021 to Diaz, one of the largest ever in a US workplace discrimination case, to US$15 million. Diaz’s lawyers rejected the lower payout and opted for a new trial on damages. In his 2017 lawsuit, Diaz accused Tesla of failing to act when he complained to managers that employees at the factory frequently used racist slurs and scrawled swastikas, racist caricatures and epithets on walls and workstations.
US District Judge William Orrick last year reduced the compensatory damages to US$1.5 million and the punitive damages to US$13.5 million. He said that sum acknowledged the pervasive harassment Diaz faced while reflecting that he had worked at the factory for only nine months and had not alleged any physical injury or illness.
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