Wal-Mart Discrimination Penalty Reduced By $4.7 Million
CENTEREACH, NY, JULY 5, 2005-- A federal judge has had to cut $4.7 million from a jury award that Wal-Mart was ordered to pay to a former employee for disability discrimination.
The New York Law Journal reported that on June 22, Eastern District of New York Magistrate Judge James Orenstein cut the $5 million in punitive damages to just $300,000 for Patrick S. Brady because of a federal limit on such damages in the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.