Ex-Equinox Employee Awarded $11.25 Million in Discrimination Lawsuit.

Equinox, a high-end gym franchise, has been ordered to pay $11.25 million in damages to Röbynn Europe, a former employee who claimed she was fired for being a black woman. A predominantly white jury agreed with her claims of a hostile work environment and discrimination based on race and gender. The verdict follows a pattern of recent transformative social movements around race and gender that may reframe the way juries think about the long shadow of emotional disruption that bigotry or sexual violence can produce. Equinox has filed a motion to reconsider the case, maintaining that the jurors had "erroneously" bought into the plaintiff's claim that she had been the victim of racial animus.