Manufacturing

Tesla ordered to pay $137 million over racism in rare verdict

Tesla racial discrimination lawsuit
Contract employees Owen Diaz, right, and son Demetric Diaz stand for a photograph in Oakland, Calif., on April 10, 2018. (BLOOMBERG/Bloomberg)
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Bloomberg
October 05, 2021 10:06 AM

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tesla Inc. lost a case against a Black former elevator operator and must pay an unprecedented $137 million in damages for having turned a blind eye to racial taunts and offensive graffiti the man endured at the EV maker's plant in Fremont, Calif.

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