U.S. District Judge William Orrick ruled on Tuesday that Owen Diaz, a black contract worker at Tesla Inc., could not appeal the judge’s award of damages.Earlier, a judge decided to pay him a huge $137 million in damages for racist abuse at Tesla’s California factorySlashed to $15 million.
Orrick said in an order Tuesday,Diaz found no ‘controlling question of law’, therefore not worth appealing. He gave Diaz 14 days to accept or decline the reduced compensation.
After a seven-day trial in San Francisco, Diaz won what is believed to be one of the largest awards for an individual plaintiff in a racial discrimination case in U.S. history. In April, O’Rick cited other court rulings in support of his decision to reduce the damages.
Diaz’s lawyers tried to appeal the pay cut, saying the judge did not adequately account for inflation because the cases he referred to were from 10 and 25 years ago.
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