December 15, 2023
A $36 million jury verdict that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission secured in September on behalf of a deaf truck driver denied a job marked one of many eight-digit damages awards that workers won in discrimination battles this past year. Here's a look at five major trial victories for workers in the past 12 months.
August 24, 2023
Counsel for the former Starbucks Corp. regional director who was allegedly fired as a scapegoat after two Black men were arrested at a Philadelphia location, drawing outrage and protests, defended their $1.4 million attorney fee request as appropriate for the "exceptional" case in New Jersey federal court.
August 18, 2023
A federal judge has awarded the former Starbucks regional manager who won a $25.6 million jury verdict in June over claims she was fired because she is white a total of $2.7 million in front pay, back pay and tax gross-up damages, ruling that the former manager conducted a reasonable job search after she was fired by the coffee giant.
August 17, 2023
Starbucks Corp. slammed a $1.4 million attorney fee request from counsel for a white former regional director who won a jury verdict over claims she was fired after the arrests of two Black men in a Philadelphia cafe sparked outrage.
July 17, 2023
Console Mattiacci Law wants a $1.4 million counsel fee for representing a white Starbucks manager who won a $25.6 million jury verdict last month on claims she was fired in the public relations fallout following a racial incident that went viral.
July 14, 2023
Starbucks wants a $25.6 million jury verdict either tossed or severely cut down in a white former regional director's suit claiming she was sacrificially fired after two Black men were arrested in a store she oversaw, arguing there's not enough evidence to support the hefty award.
June 13, 2023
A white former Starbucks employee's $25.6 million win in a case alleging the coffee chain canned her to quell bad press over the arrests of two Black men in a Philadelphia cafe exemplifies the risks of making hurried personnel decisions and overvaluing optics, experts say.
June 12, 2023
A New Jersey federal jury on Monday sided with a white former regional director for Starbucks who alleged that she was fired after the arrests of two Black men in a Philadelphia cafe sparked outrage, awarding her $25.6 million in damages on her claims that the coffee chain was looking for a "sacrificial lamb" to quell a public relations crisis.
June 09, 2023
Starbucks challenged a former regional director's claim that she was made the company's scapegoat after the arrest of two Black men in one of its Philadelphia cafés sparked outrage, telling a federal jury on Friday the company needed someone with a track record of showing "strength and resolution" during a crisis.
June 07, 2023
Starbucks urged a New Jersey federal court Wednesday to reject a sanctions bid from a white former manager who claims the company kept certain video footage from the jury in her race bias case, saying the company did its best to satisfy the worker's "last minute" request for security tape.