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In 2021, a jury found Tesla guilty, and ordered Tesla to pay US$137 million in damages, of which $6.9 million were for emotional distress and $130 million were punitive damages. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The verdict was one of the most significant in this class of lawsuit.
A federal court has ordered Tesla to shell out $137 million to a former Black employee after he sued the company over a racist and hostile work environment. NBC News' Priscilla Thompson speaks to ...
Owen Diaz, a Black ex-contractor of Tesla, won a $137 million lawsuit in 2021 against the company, but Bloomberg reports that a jury determined that Tesla only owes him… Jury slashes payout to ...
But the eight-person jury in the latest trial, which lasted five days, arrived at a dramatically lower damages number than the $137 million Diaz won in his first trial in 2021. U.S. District Judge William Orrick reduced that award to $15 million, prompting Diaz and his lawyers to seek a new trial rather than accept the lower amount.
A jury last October had awarded Diaz $137 million, one of the largest verdicts ever in a discrimination case involving a single worker. Judge orders new trial in Tesla worker's race bias lawsuit ...
In October 2021, a jury verdict in the Owen Diaz vs. Tesla trial awarded the plaintiff $137 million in damages after he had faced racial harassment at Tesla's Fremont facility during 2015–2016. [154] [155] In a blog, Tesla stressed that Diaz was never "really" a Tesla worker, and that most utterings of the n-word were expressed in a friendly ...
In February 2022, a lawsuit was filed against Tesla regarding a fatality involving suspension breakage (so-called "whompy wheels"). [178] [179] The lawsuit follows a Tesla recall in China due to breakages of front and rear suspension linkages and ball joints, noting that the same components are used in all Tesla models sold worldwide. [180]
Tesla has been ordered to pay $137 million in damages in a racial discrimination suit brought by a contractor, who alleged use of racial slurs at the plant.