A judge has sided with the electric vehicle maker and slashed the amount of money it paid to a former employee who was previously awarded $137 million for racist treatment.
A federal judge in California lowered the racial discriminationPayout from the original amount to just fifteen million dollars, claiming that it was unconstitutional.
In his decision, US District Judge William Orrick said that despite being called the n-word and other racist epithets at the company's factory, he was not a racist.
Judge Orrick wrote in the decision that the principle of the reduction was correct.
Bernard Alexander said in an interview that the former employee will be appealing the ruling.
Alexander told the news service that the award of fifteen million dollars was not close to reflecting the harm caused to Mr.
This is not the first time thatTesla has been accused of discrimination in the past, and it has attracted the attention of the state of California.
It might be bad news for future employees of the company, or any of Musk's other companies, if they decide to file a discrimination complaint.
The judge found that the company was liable for the alleged bias of a black former worker.
The man says his car got stuck at 83 mph on the highway.
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