IBM Denied Rehearing After 9th Circuit Orders Remittitur In Retaliation Suit

Mealey's (September 21, 2022, 7:11 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 14 denied a petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc by International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), leaving in place an Aug. 1 memorandum in which a split panel partially vacated a trial court’s denial of remittitur after a federal judge awarded $11 million to a former 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.”...