A federal jury on Monday sharply lowered the quantity of damages awarded to a Black former worker who claimed the auto maker failed to forestall racial harassment in opposition to 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 affordable steps to forestall harassment at its Fremont, Calif., manufacturing facility. Final yr, a federal decide reduced that award to $15 million, saying it was the utmost quantity allowable. But Diaz rejected that and elected a retrial on the damages half.