Posted on 02/03/2023 5:31:14 PM PST by simpson96
A woman in Oregon was awarded $1 million in damages this week after a jury found that she was discriminated against when a gas station attendant told her he didn’t “serve Black people.”
The decision by the jury in Multnomah County, which came after a four-day civil trial, included $550,000 in punitive damages.
Greg Kafoury, a lawyer for Rose Wakefield, the plaintiff, said his client felt “vindicated” and was looking forward to putting this case behind her.
“This company deserved to be publicly humiliated just as they had publicly humiliated my client by calling her a liar in court for four days when she had been telling the truth,” Mr. Kafoury said in an interview on Saturday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Half a mil because a pump jockey said something rude? Was she trying to buy sushi?
I did not know gas station attendants made so much money! Wow.
IMHO, at least a 50% probability that it was a scam...
What are the odds of a white boy getting an NAACP scholarship?
https://frontrunnernewjersey.com/2019/05/27/atlantic-city-naacp-names-scholarship-winners/
Oh wait... I forgot. All this discrimination BS only goes one way in this country.
If not, isn't it he said, she said?
should be thrown out on appeal
Reparations by any other name ...
Why don't I believe this?
Was volunteering at a concession stand and a school sporting event. We weee very very busy during half time. Had drinks thrown at me and all I heard was “ can’t a black man get a full glass” we were all like what the hell, here comes a law suit. The crowd basically took him out.
such a double standard.
If I hired a process server and after 100 hours they finally found but refused so serve some Kyle guy cause he was white could I sue for millions?
Tell a black woman she has to wait her turn, you get fired, she gets $1 million.
Oregon... unpossible
Gas station attendant get 20 G’S on the side wink.
They took the bait babe
That’s my take.
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