Black Tesla Ex-Worker Seeks Another Redo in Factory Racism Fight

A Black ex-contract worker at Tesla Inc. who was awarded $3.2 million in a second trial over the company’s failure to protect him from racial abuse now wants another do-over, claiming that “highly damaging” attacks on his character and credibility by the electric-vehicle maker’s attorney made the proceeding unfair.

Tesla, meanwhile, is urging a federal judge to reduce what it must pay Owen Diaz by 45%, arguing that the punitive damages against the company are “manifestly erroneous.”

Diaz, who was an elevator operator for Tesla about seven years ago, won a $137 million jury verdict in 2021 over allegations that ...