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Re:Tesla must pay $137M to ex-worker over hostile work envir... by potamic on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:36AM (#28756794)
> faced a hostile work environment in which, he told the court, colleagues used epithets to denigrate him and other Black workers, told him to “go back to Africa” and left racist graffiti in the restrooms and a racist drawing in his workspace.

How do you even prove such a thing? Especially 5 years after you have left the place. And how does it not become a case of he said, she said?

Re:Tesla must pay $137M to ex-worker over hostile work envir... by erfgh on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:55AM (#28757253)
There are witnesses and the jury evaluates them.
Re:Tesla must pay $137M to ex-worker over hostile work envir... by mrjangles on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:11AM (#28757846)
The relevant section from the article

>“In addition to Mr. Diaz, three other witnesses (all non-Tesla contract employees) testified at trial that they regularly heard racial slurs (including the n-word) on the Fremont factory floor. While they all agreed that the use of the n-word was not appropriate in the workplace, they also agreed that most of the time they thought the language was used in a ‘friendly’ manner and usually by African-American colleagues.”

Re:Tesla must pay $137M to ex-worker over hostile work envir... by pranavjoneja on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @06:14AM (#28757402)
This is a civil case. Juries are only for criminal cases.
Re:Tesla must pay $137M to ex-worker over hostile work envir... by IdoRA on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @06:45AM (#28757657)
Juries are common in civil trials in the US.
Re:Tesla must pay $137M to ex-worker over hostile work envir... by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @06:54PM (#28766769)
> In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

7th amendment says otherwise.