IBM, Former Manager Debate Remittitur Of $6M Emotional Harm Damages

Mealey's (October 26, 2022, 7:24 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A former International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) manager who was awarded $11 million by a federal jury, including $6 million for emotional harm, in a case in which he claimed retaliation after attempting to stop IBM from discriminating against an African American sales representative, filed a brief in a federal court in Washington arguing that the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals never set a cap of $1.5 million on the noneconomic damages award....