January 08, 2025
A Washington federal judge has reproached the U.S. Department of the Interior for seeking a new trial on damages in a former employee's age discrimination case after the Ninth Circuit vacated the plaintiff's initial $1.7 million win over calculation errors, saying the agency missed its chance to litigate the worker's lost wages.
April 13, 2022
The U.S. Department of the Interior must pay a former employee just under $1.7 million in damages after a Washington federal judge found the agency discriminated against the worker because she was in her 50s and had raised ageism concerns.