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.
September 16, 2016
Wal-Mart won't get a new trial after a fired store pharmacist won about $16.2 million in a gender discrimination case, a New Hampshire federal judge ruled Friday, although he trimmed a front pay award and requested clarification from a state court on the company's request to limit enhanced compensatory damages to $15 million.
April 06, 2016
A former Wal-Mart pharmacist who a New Hampshire federal jury in January concluded was wrongfully fired because of her gender urged a judge on Wednesday to ignore the retailer's request to overturn the verdict or reduce her $16.3 million award, saying more than enough evidence shows she was discriminated against.
March 02, 2016
Wal-Mart has asked a New Hampshire federal judge to step in and overturn a jury's guilty verdict against it, as well as a $31 million award, later trimmed to roughly $16.3 million, to a former pharmacist who accused the retailer of gender bias and wrongful termination after she complained that her medical data had been disclosed by a colleague.
January 28, 2016
Wal-Mart must pay a female former pharmacist about $31 million after a New Hampshire federal jury on Wednesday found the company guilty of disciplining her more harshly than it did male coworkers and firing her when she complained some of her medical data had been improperly disclosed.