A federal jury in Atlanta has awarded a female employee of Exel Corp. $500,000 after determining the company denied her a promotion because she was a woman. The case went to trial only after the presiding judge overruled a magistrate judge’s recommendation to dismiss it.
Judge Steve Jones of the Northern District of Georgia in May rejected a recommendation made last year by U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Clayton Scofield III to dismiss the case in Exel’s favor. Scofield had found that because plaintiff Contrice Travis never formally applied for the supervisory job at issue, there was insufficient evidence to support her discrimination claim.
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