Jury in Tesla racial harassment case reduces damages by 98%

A federal jury on Monday sharply lowered the quantity of damages awarded to a Black former worker who claimed the auto maker failed to stop racial harassment towards him.

In 2021, a San Francisco jury awarded Owen Diaz $137 million, discovering Tesla
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subjected him to a hostile work surroundings and didn’t take cheap steps to stop harassment at its Fremont, Calif., manufacturing facility. Last yr, a federal choose lowered that award to $15 million, saying it was the utmost quantity allowable. But Diaz rejected that and elected a retrial on the damages half.

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