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 slash his massive $137 million compensation for racist abuse at Tesla’s California factory to $ 15 million。
O’Rick said in an order on Tuesday that Diaz had found no “substantially substantiated, controlling question of law” and therefore was not worthy of an appeal. He gave Diaz 14 days to accept or reject 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 both 10 and 25 years old.
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