Ex-high school coach awarded $2.5M in discrimination case
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) A jury has ruled that the Colorado High School Activities Association should pay a former assistant basketball coach $2.5 million in a race discrimination case.
William Trey Harris III, who was hired in 2016 as a coach at Sand Creek High School in Colorado Springs, was falsely blamed for a transfer violation and later fired as a minority scapegoat, a lawsuit filed in federal court said. Jurors agreed, saying Harris should be awarded $200,000 in economic damages, $1.3 million in non-economic damages and $1 million in punitive damages, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported Thursday.
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By - Associated Press - Thursday, April 29, 2021
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A jury has ruled that the Colorado High School Activities Association should pay a former assistant basketball coach $2.5 million in a race discrimination case.
William ‘Trey’ Harris III, who was hired in 2016 as a coach at Sand Creek High School in Colorado Springs, was falsely blamed for a transfer violation and later fired as a “minority scapegoat,” a lawsuit filed in federal court said. Jurors agreed, saying Harris should be awarded $200,000 in economic damages, $1.3 million in non-economic damages and $1 million in punitive damages, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported Thursday.
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