Explainer: Tesla's legal troubles: what's next after $3 million race bias verdict?

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A federal jury ordered Tesla to pay about $3.2 million to a Black former factory worker who won a lawsuit accusing the car maker of tolerating severe racial harassment. The case is one of several involving working conditions at companies run by Elon Musk

and will not go to trial soon. Tesla has denied wrongdoing and called the agency's lawsuit politically motivated.Diaz's lawyers are likely to ask the judge presiding over the case to increase the award at least to the level of the $15 million he awarded last year. Diaz could also ask a San-Francisco-based federal appeals court to order the judge to reconsider, or to order a new trial.

The company could also argue that the punitive damages award was excessive. The U.S. Supreme Court has said punitive damages should typically be capped at less than ten times the award for emotional distress and other injuries.The handful of pending cases against Tesla is in line with what any large company can expect. What stands out is the consistency of the claims alleging rampant harassment of Black workers at Tesla's plant in Fremont.

 

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racIST harassment.

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So the white south african is ok with racial harassment? No way....

Naggers be nagging .....saying ....we demand equality then in the same sentence I am so special I deserve millions in reparations....YOU GUYS CANNOT HAVE EQUALITY AND BE SPECIAL it doesn't work that way this will be the end of California lol none of yall will go to work again

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