Staples Fails in Bid to Overturn $16M Age Bias Award

Aug. 17, 2016, 3:48 PM UTC

The California Supreme Court denied Staples Inc.'s request that it review a state trial court’s $16.3 million age discrimination award to a former physical plant manager who was fired at age 64 for alleged theft of a bell pepper (Nickel v. Staples Contract & Commercial, Inc., 2016 BL 262664, Cal., No. S235680, 8/10/16).

The state high court’s Aug. 10 rejection of a petition for review filed by Staples and subsidiary Staples Contract & Commercial Inc. leaves in place an intermediate appeals court’s May ruling that found a jury’s verdict in favor of Bobby Dean Nickel ...

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