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Appeals panel upholds $500K verdict for butcher vs South Side grocer for sexual, racial harassment

By DM Herra | Wednesday, Aug 8, 2018 @ 12:45am

A federal appeals panel has upheld a lower court’s order requiring a Chicago grocery store to pay more than $500,000 to an African American former butcher who claimed he suffered severe racial and sexual harassment at the hands of his Hispanic coworkers.
Jury awards $2.4 million to African-American butcher who alleged 5 years of sexual, racial harassment at South Side grocer

By Jonathan Bilyk | Monday, Dec 21, 2015 @ 5:40pm

An African-American man who said he was subjected to repeated and regular racial epithets and sexual harassment, including groping of his genitals, by Latino coworkers at a grocery store on Chicago’s far South Side won a federal jury verdict against his former employers for more than $2.4 million. On Dec. 15, jurors in Chicago federal court handed down the verdict, ordering defendant Rosebud Farmstand to pay plaintiff Robert Smith damages.