Estelle v. Los Angeles County MTA CA2/7
A jury found the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) failed to accommodate the disability of one of its bus drivers, Garey Estelle, and failed to engage in the interactive process to discuss accommodating his disability. The jury awarded Estelle $625,000, consisting of
$350,000 in past noneconomic damages and $275,000 in future noneconomic damages. The trial court denied the MTA’s posttrial motions based on judicial estoppel and insufficiency of the evidence to support the damages award. In addition, the trial court, using a lodestar multiplier of 1.5, awarded Estelle $752,925.92 in statutory attorneys’ fees. We conclude that the trial court did not err in declining to apply judicial estoppel to vacate the jury’s verdict and that substantial evidence supports the jury’s award of noneconomic damages.
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