Tesla settles long-running racial discrimination court battle with former worker

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Tesla settles long-running ******* discrimination court battle with former worker

Owen Diaz’s lengthy court battle against Tesla is officially over, now that both parties have agreed on a settlement. Attorney Lawrence Organ, Diaz’s lawyer, told

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that that the “parties have reached an amicable resolution of their disputes,” but that the “terms of the settlement are confidential.” If you’ve been following this case for a while now, that means you won’t get to find out how much Diaz is getting after the massive $137 million in damages he was originally awarded got dramatically lowered to $3.2 million.

The former elevator operator famously sued the automaker for enabling a ******* workplace, saying that he faced discrimination “straight from the Jim Crow era” as a ****** individual. He said his fellow workers left left drawings of ********* and ******* graffiti, such as ones of Inki the Caveman, on his workspace and around Tesla’s Fremont assembly plant. Diaz also said that he and other ****** workers were subjected to ******* slurs, and that the company ******* to address thes behaviors despite repeated complaints.

In 2021, a San Francisco court ordered Tesla to pay $137 million in damages to its former worker, which was one of the highest amounts awarded to a plaintiff suing on the basis of discrimination. However, a judge during the appeals that followed found the amount excessive and lowered it to $15 million, even though he upheld the original jury’s verdict. The parties went back into trial after Diaz refused the lowered amount, but a jury lowered the damages Tesla must pay even further to $3.2 million. At the time, Diaz’s lawyer said he was wrongly attacked by the defense and that they had already requested a new trial due to misconduct. It looks like both parties have since agreed to negotiate behind closed doors.

While Diaz’s case is done, Organ also represents Marcus Vaughn, who filed another lawsuit against the automaker for ******* harassment. Vaughn called Tesla’s Fremont plant a “hotbed for ******* behavior” and petitioned the court last year to give his lawsuit

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so that he could add 240 ****** colleagues to his complaint.

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