Mealey's (September 7, 2022, 12:33 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — IBM petitioned for a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel rehearing and rehearing en banc on Aug. 15, two weeks after a split appellate panel partially vacated a trial court’s denial of remittitur after a federal judge awarded $11 million to a former International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) manager who claimed that he was retaliated against after attempting to stop IBM from discriminating against an African-American sales representative and remanded “with instructions to order remittitur of the excessive award of non-economic damages.”...