FedEx Manager’s $366 Million Retaliation Win Cut to $249,000

FedEx Corporate Services Inc. convinced a Fifth Circuit panel to undo a $366 million jury award for a Black former executive who sued the company alleging retaliation.

Jennifer Harris wasn’t entitled to the $365 million punitive damages portion of the jury’s award because FedEx “made good-faith efforts to comply with Title VII” of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said Thursday.

Harris is only entitled to $248,619 in compensatory damages for emotional distress as to her Title VII retaliation claim, Judge Cory T. Wilson said.

The decision also addressed the propriety ...