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Tesla has been ordered to pay $3.2 million in damages to Owen Diaz, down from an initial amount of $137 million

A federal jury in San Francisco on Monday ordered Tesla Inc. to pay about US$3.2 million to a Black former employee after he won a racial harassment lawsuit against the electric-vehicle maker, far less than the US$15 million he rejected last year in opting for a new trial.

A federal jury in San Francisco on Monday ordered Tesla Inc to pay about $3.2 million to a Black former employee after he won a racial harassment lawsuit against the electric-vehicle maker, far less than the $15 million he rejected last year in opting for a new trial.

A federal jury in San Francisco on Monday ordered Tesla Inc to pay about $3.2 million to a Black former employee.

A judge agreed with that jury that Tesla was liable but said the award was excessive and ordered a new trial on damages.

The ex-worker declined the previously reduced $15 million award

The award in the racial bias lawsuit filed by Owen Diaz, a former Black elevator operator at Tesla’s Fremont facility, has been reduced from $15 million to $3.2 million. During a weeklong trial in San Francisco, a federal jury on Monday decided that Tesla had failed to prevent extreme racial harassment at its flagship assembly …

April 3 - A federal jury in San Francisco on Monday ordered Tesla Inc to pay about $3.2 million to a Black former employee after he won a racial harassment lawsuit against the electric-vehicle maker, far less than the $15 million he rejected last ye

Owen Diaz, the Black former worker at Tesla's Fremont factory, has seen his payout in a racial bias lawsuit slashed from $15M to $3.2M.

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