A federal judge on Wednesday slashed a jury's award of $137 million in damages in a racial discrimination case against Tesla Inc. to $15 million, while...
A federal judge on Wednesday slashed a jury’s award of $137 million in damages in a racial discrimination case against Tesla Inc. to $15 million, while calling the evidence against the electric-vehicle maker “disturbing.”
U.S. District Judge William Orrick reduced the amount awarded in a October 2021 verdict, calling the $130 million in punitive damages “unconstitutionally large.” He also reduced the amount in compensatory damages from $6.9 million to $1.5 million. “This is not, as Tesla attempts to frame it, a case of ‘garden variety’ emotional distress,” he wrote.
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