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IBM Can Use Appeal Bond To Stall $11M Retaliation Suit Award
Law360 (May 24, 2021, 7:32 PM EDT) IBM Corp. can use a $14.6 million bond to pause on paying a former sales executive s $11 million award while it appeals a jury s finding that he was fired for complaining that a coworker had faced discrimination, a Washington federal judge said Monday.
U.S. District Judge Marsha J. Pechman accepted IBM s supersedeas bond, allowing the company to wait until after its Ninth Circuit appeal to pay ex-manager Scott Kingston s April 15 jury award. The jury ruled that Kingston was canned in retaliation for reporting that a Black sales representative was unfairly deprived of the bulk of his commission check.
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IBM Wants New Trial After Ex-Exec s $11M Retaliation Win
Law360 (May 14, 2021, 5:22 PM EDT) IBM has asked a Seattle federal judge for a new trial and to undo a monstrous emotional damages award in a case where a jury found that the tech giant owed a former sales executive $11 million for firing him after he complained that a co-worker faced discrimination.
Late on Thursday, IBM asked the court to pare down Scott Kingston s award of $6 million in emotional damages over half of the total $11 million award to $200,000. It also urged the court to either grant judgment to the company as a matter of law or allow a redo of.
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SEATTLE, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman ( Milberg ) received a $11.1 million verdict today on behalf of client Scott Kingston who alleged IBM wrongfully terminated him after raising claims of racial bias in the treatment of his subordinates. Milberg attorneys Matthew E. Lee and Jeremy Williams, and Brittany Glass and Toby Marshall of Terrell Marshall Law Group PLLC represented Mr. Kingston in a Zoom jury trial held in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
At the end of the third sales quarter in 2017, IBM sales manager Scott Kingston noticed a stark discrepancy between the commissions of two of his subordinates: Jerome Beard, a black salesman, and Nick Donato, a white salesman. While Mr. Donato received more than $1 million in uncapped commissions for a closed deal with SAS Institute, Mr. Beard s commissions for a successful sale to HCL Technologies were slashed from more than
A Washington federal jury on Thursday sided with a former IBM sales manager who says he was fired for reporting discrimination against a subordinate, finding that the tech giant had indeed retaliated against and wrongly fired the manager, and that he's entitled to $11 million in damages.
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