Grave Errors

An appeals court in California reversed a verdict awarding $13 million in damages to a UCLA professor in a gender discrimination suit, finding the lower court “committed a series of grave errors,” including telling the jury that it was their duty to “stand in the shoes of Dr. Martin Luther King and bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice.”

LOS ANGELES — An appeals court in California reversed a verdict awarding $13 million in damages to a UCLA professor in a gender discrimination suit, finding the lower court “committed a series of grave errors,” including telling the jury that it was their duty to “stand in the shoes of Dr. Martin Luther King and bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice.”

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