Tesla has settled a long-running lawsuit by a black former factory worker who claimed he was subjected to severe racial harassment, according to a court filing on Friday, as the electric carmaker faces a series of other discrimination lawsuits.
Tesla and lawyers for Owen Diaz, a former elevator operator at the company’s Fremont, Calif., assembly plant, did not disclose details of the settlement in the filing in San Francisco federal court.
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The agreement ends appeals that both sides were pursuing after a jury last year awarded Diaz $3.2 million in damages. Tesla claimed it was not liable for the alleged discrimination and Diaz had argued that the company’s lawyers engaged in misconduct warranting a new trial.
A different jury in 2021 awarded Diaz $137 million, one of the largest verdicts ever in a discrimination case involving a single worker. But a judge found that the verdict was excessive and ordered a second trial after Diaz refused a lowered award of $15 million.
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