Jury awards $10M to former exec who said he was fired because he is white male

[Dial H For Hero]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jury-awards-10m-former-exec-061700888.html

A man who alleged in a lawsuit that he was fired from a hospital system because he is a white man has been awarded a $10 million verdict by a North Carolina jury, according to court documents.

David Duvall of Michigan sued Novant Health, Inc. in 2019 after he was fired as senior vice president of marketing and communications the previous year.

Duvall said in the suit that he was terminated without cause "as part of an intentional campaign to promote diversity in its management ranks" and that he was fired due to his sex and gender.

Novant Health, which is based in Winston-Salem, has denied those allegations. It has said in court filings that he was fired for deficient performance and the delegation of critical duties to subordinates.

[jimfields33]

1. I can't wait until the United States doesn't have discrimation of any type

We should be there now, but I hope in a few decades at most. It will be over.

[BannonsLiver]

12. Unlikely.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Isnt that one of those right to work states?

[PoliticAverse]

4. The suit was based on Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act and held in a federal court. n/t

[Jose Garcia]

10. Senior Vice Presidents usually aren't members of collective bargining units

[jcmaine72]

3. Poor, little old, defenseless and oppressed White men

Pardon me while I go cry a Great Lake's worth of tears for this mercilessly persecuted underclass.

[Polybius]

11. Assuming he really was fired because he was white, you wouldn't care?

Even if he had been with the company for years?

[2naSalit]

5. Figures it was...

In one of the Carolinas.

[Wingus Dingus]

6. They fired him days before his 5 year anniversary, when

they would have had to pay him much more severance--that does sound like something a douchey organization would do on purpose. I wonder if they have clear documentation of his poor work performance, because it didn't sound like the jury bought it.

[Amishman]

7. Agreed, I'd love to know more about the details as this is so odd

Exceptions and isolated incidents do happen, so I guess it is possible. Still really surprised and would love to know more details

[Wingus Dingus]

8. Being fired for "poor work performance" wasn't going to help him get

an equivalent position elsewhere, either--fair or not, they should seen the retaliation coming. What I find suspect is that it took TWO NEW hires to do his same job. So how truly poor could his work performance have been? They accused him of over-delegating--but it sounds like they piled the work on him and then fired him and split his job in half (recognizing that it was too much for one person).

[spooky3]

9. Discrimination based on race or gender etc., is wrong and the

Jury believed his more than the company’s evidence. It’s very hard for employees to win these suits.

The company said it could appeal.

[dsc]

15. The Triad, where the trial was held, is a fairly progressive part of NC

though the jury could have been from anywhere in central NC. Honestly for him to get this verdict, he must have had some pretty compelling evidence.

[Dr. Strange]

18. There seems to have been two key pieces of evidence.

The first was that the company was trying to claim that he wasn't doing a satisfactory job. But then they filled his position with two women. It was weird trying to argue that someone who isn't doing their job properly needs to be replaced by TWO people.

The other was that there had been multiple firings in high-level positions, where a white male was fired and replaced with someone who was a minority of some type. With these all happening in a relatively small time frame (maybe a couple of years?), it seemed like it was a deliberate action.

https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/jury-awards-10-million-to-white-former-novant-health-executive-for-reverse-discrimination-in-firing/

[FakeNoose]

16. How many white racists were sitting in that jury?

Just sayin'

[DFW]

17. Surely not a one

And the fact that all 12 jurors are driving new Teslas is PURE coincidence……