After the 2021 trial, U.S. District Judge William Orrick agreed with a jury that Tesla was liable for race discrimination butthe verdict to $15 million. Orrick is also presiding over this week's trial, and has barred both sides from presenting new evidence or calling new witnesses.
In his 2017 lawsuit, Diaz accused Tesla of failing to act when he complained to managers that employees at the factory frequently used racist slurs and scrawled swastikas, racist caricatures and epithets on walls and workstations. The jury in 2021 awarded Diaz nearly $7 million in compensatory damages for emotional distress, and $130 million in punitive damages, designed to punish unlawful conduct and deter it in the future.
Employment discrimination cases rarely yield verdicts of more than $1 million, let alone nine-figure sums. The U.S. Supreme Court has said punitive damages typically should be no more than 10 times compensatory damages.
Ridiculous
I’m not surprised. He incites and makes sure “hate”, insurrections, etc flourish on Twitter while banning and silencing democracy
Elon musk needs to get out of that shithole state.