"$25m judgment awarded to steelworker in N.Y. racial lawsuit" Associated Press, June 14, 2012
BUFFALO - A federal jury has awarded a damage judgment of $25 million to a western New York steel plant employee who says his bosses failed to stop years of racial taunts and insults from his co-workers.
The jury on Tuesday found Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal and some of its former executives responsible for the treatment Elijah Turley endured at the company’s now-closed Buffalo-area steel plant, according to the Buffalo News.
During the trial, Turley, who is black, testified that “KKK’’ and “King Kong’’ graffiti were written on the walls of the plant and a stuffed monkey with a noose around its neck was found hanging from his driver’s side mirror....
ArcelorMittal lawyers acknowledged during the trial that Turley’s description of the abuse was largely accurate, but....
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