January 25, 2022
As a California federal judge mulls whether to reduce what he called an "extremely high" $137 million win for a Black worker who brought a race bias suit against Tesla, Law360 looks back at four recent examples of judges slicing multimillion-dollar discrimination awards.
June 04, 2020
Walmart inadvertently disclosed details of multimillion-dollar settlement negotiations with a worker who won a retaliation trial when it asked a federal court this week to enforce the deal and to deny sanctions requested by the man's lawyer for allegedly ignoring a court order to reinstate the worker.
May 13, 2020
A former Walmart Inc. asset protection manager who won a retaliation verdict against the company asked a federal judge Tuesday to find contempt and award sanctions against the company and its counsel over its ongoing failure to restore him to the same position.
December 18, 2017
A Connecticut federal judge on Monday awarded $1 million in attorneys fees to a Walmart employee who won a jury verdict on claims that he was retaliated against for complaining of race discrimination, but also sanctioned the worker's attorney for filing a premature appeal in the case.
August 30, 2017
A Connecticut federal judge on Wednesday reduced a $5.5 million jury award to a Walmart employee to the $300,000 maximum allowed by statute for the man's claims that he was retaliated against for complaining of race discrimination, but added nearly $240,000 in economic damages to the award.
March 09, 2017
A Connecticut federal jury on Wednesday found that Wal-Mart retaliated against an employee after he complained about race discrimination and awarded punitive and noneconomic damages of $5.5 million, a figure the worker's attorney estimates is a record in the state.