Do you think large damage awards against a business are right?
Filed in archive Employees by Steve Rucinski on June 04, 2006
Employees of Lebanese descent prevail in California harassment lawsuit.
Somehow this just doesn't seem right? $61 Million for being harrassed?
A jury awarded $61 million to two FedEx Ground drivers of Lebanese descent who claimed a manager harassed them with racial slurs for two years.
Edgar Rizkallah, 43, and Kamil Issa, 36, both of Pleasanton, said in the discrimination lawsuit they were called "terrorists," "camel jockeys" and other epithets in 1999 and 2000 by Stacy Shoun, terminal manager for the Oakland FedEx Ground facility where the two men were contract drivers.
An Alameda County Superior Court jury on Friday awarded the men $50 million in punitive damages, on top of $11 million in compensatory damages the jury awarded them on May 24, a lawyer for the plaintiffs and a FedEx Ground spokesman said Saturday.
The size of this award just seems wrong! What do you think?
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