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Old 12-04-2014, 01:31 PM
 
Location: Georgia, on the Florida line, right above Tallahassee
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AutoZone to pay $185 million in pregnancy and gender discrimination lawsuit | abc7.com

A jury awarded $185 million to a San Diego woman who sued her former employer AutoZone for pregnancy and gender discrimination.

'Murica!

Contrast that against

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Sedrick Courtney.... was exonerated by DNA evidence in 2012 after he served 16 years in prison for robbery and burglary. Courtney received $175,000 from the state for his wrongful conviction.

'Murica!
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Old 12-04-2014, 01:40 PM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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$185 million?

that should be just enough to cover her hurt feelings.
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Old 12-04-2014, 01:50 PM
 
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First the award will be appealed. Then she has problem of actually collecting in her life time with other appeals. Likely her attorney will want to settle long before.
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Old 12-04-2014, 02:07 PM
 
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AutoZone to pay $185 million in pregnancy and gender discrimination lawsuit | abc7.com

A jury awarded $185 million to a San Diego woman who sued her former employer AutoZone for pregnancy and gender discrimination.

'Murica!
Juries are strange beasts. No way this stands though.
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Old 12-04-2014, 02:18 PM
 
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Well, that was a totally balanced article.

So she told her manager she was pregnant, he said "I feel sorry for you" then made her do busy work, before eventually demoting and firing her... for no reason other than being pregnant?

There's got to be something more to this story. Why would they have hired her in the first place, if they had some bizarre hatred of pregnant women? Or just women in general, as the prosecution charged.
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Old 12-04-2014, 03:14 PM
 
Location: Eastern UP of Michigan
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The people who were wrongly convicted, should get the 185 million.
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Old 12-04-2014, 03:22 PM
 
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Read the entire OP.
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Old 12-04-2014, 03:23 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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And a new 1%er is born thanks to the court system.
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Old 12-04-2014, 04:19 PM
 
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And a new 1%er is born thanks to the court system.
The award will get reduced. I'll put my money on the 1-3 million dollar range.
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Old 12-04-2014, 04:26 PM
 
Location: California
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Default AutoZone to pay $185 million

I got to file me some law suits.
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