January 25, 2022
As a California federal judge mulls whether to reduce what he called an "extremely high" $137 million win for a Black worker who brought a race bias suit against Tesla, Law360 looks back at four recent examples of judges slicing multimillion-dollar discrimination awards.
July 31, 2019
A Florida federal judge ruled Wednesday that Park Hotels & Resort Inc., formerly Hilton Worldwide, cannot get a new trial in a dishwasher's successful suit claiming she was fired for refusing to work Sundays, but he knocked over $20 million off the ex-worker's $21.5 million jury award.
March 14, 2019
Walmart was recently found to have flouted Arizona's medical marijuana law when it fired a worker with a positive drug test even though she legally smoked cannabis for medicinal purposes, and AT&T was recently found to have used an invalid waiver that blocked a laid-off employee from lodging age discrimination claims. Here, Law360 looks at these and another notable employment litigation development from the first quarter of 2019.
February 12, 2019
Park Hotels and Resort Inc., formerly known as Hilton Worldwide Inc., has asked a Florida federal court to order a new trial or rule in its favor after a jury handed a $21.5 million verdict to a dishwasher who alleged religious discrimination when she was fired after refusing to work Sundays.
January 14, 2019
A Florida federal jury on Monday handed down a $21.5 million verdict against Park Hotels & Resort, formerly known as Hilton Worldwide Inc., in a suit brought by a dishwasher alleging religious discrimination when she was fired after refusing to work on a Sunday.