Glow Networks Workers Can’t Restore $70 Million Bias Award (1)

A group of Black and White former Glow Networks Inc. engineers weren’t entitled to the $70 million a Texas federal jury awarded them for race discrimination and retaliation, a Fifth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday.

The decision affirms a lower court’s judgment that overturned a verdict holding Glow liable to the 10 workers for $7 million each following a 10-day trial. It stressed that the McDonnell Douglas test—which has been widely used for 50 years and recently questioned by at least two US Supreme Court justices—doesn’t apply when a court examines whether the evidence at trial supported a jury’s findings.

The ...