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By Jonathan Stempel<\/p>\n

(Reuters) – A federal judge reduced a $237.6 million jury award against United Parcel <\/span><\/span> Service to $39.6 million in the case of a Black former driver who accused the package delivery company of workplace bias and wrongful firing.<\/p>\n

In a decision made public on Friday, U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice in Yakima, Washington, accepted UPS’ request to throw out a $198 million in punitive damages award, finding jurors acted unreasonably in awarding the sum to Tahvio Gratton.<\/p>\n

The decision does not affect the jury’s $39.6 million award to Gratton for emotional distress, but UPS plans to ask that it be thrown out as well. <\/p>\n

Rice found no proof that a UPS supervisor intended to commandeer a probe into whether Gratton touched a female worker inappropriately on a loading dock, resulting in Gratton’s October 2021 dismissal after five years of employment.<\/p>\n

He also said Gratton was able to tell his side of the story, with assistance from his union.<\/p>\n

Gratton said UPS used the loading dock incident, for which he said he apologized immediately, as a pretext for firing him over his complaints about the workplace.<\/p>\n

In his lawsuit, Gratton said supervisors at a UPS facility in Yakima frequently passed him over for route assignments in favor of less senior drivers and gave him less desirable trucks and routes than white drivers received.<\/p>\n

Gratton also said a younger white supervisor repeatedly called him “boy” and defended using that term by saying: “I’m from the South. That’s how I talk.”<\/p>\n

UPS said on Monday it plans to seek a new trial and overturn the remainder of the Sept. 12 verdict.<\/p>\n

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Lawyers for Gratton did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

The case is Gratton v United Parcel Service Inc (NYSE:UPS<\/span>), U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Washington, No. 22-03149. <\/p>\n

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