A federal judge gave a black former elevator operator at Tesla Inc. two weeks to decide whether to accept a $15 million damages over racial abuse at the electric car company, up from the $137 million awarded by a jury. is less than.
A federal judge on Tuesday gave a black former elevator operator at Tesla Inc. two weeks to decide whether to accept $15 million in damages over racial abuse at the electric car company, the $15 million awarded by a jury. less than 137 million.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco said Owen Diaz did not identify any controlling question of law to justify an urgent appeal of the reduced award, which included $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $13.5 million in punitive damages. is included.
Diaz alleged that her colleagues and a supervisor subjected her to a hostile work environment that included abuses, caricatures and swastikas over the nine months she worked at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California, in 2015 and 2016.
A jury last October awarded Diaz $6.9 million in compensatory damages and $130 million in punitive damages.
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In Tuesday’s order, Orrick said he was “strongly convinced” that the jury award was excessive, and that allowing an expedited appeal would “further delay the resolution of an already five-year-old case.”
Diaz’s lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. He had said that a question of law relating to damages for emotional distress justifies the immediate appeal.
Under US Supreme Court precedent, punitive damages must typically be less than 10 times the compensatory damages.
The case is in Diaz v. Tesla Inc. et al, US District Court, Northern District of California, No. 17-06748.
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