Starbucks to pay $25M+ to white manager in race discrimination lawsuit.

Starbucks has been ordered by a federal jury to pay $25.6 million to a white former regional manager who claimed the company fired her after fallout from the arrests of two Black men. The jury found that Starbucks violated the federal civil rights of the former manager and a New Jersey law that prohibits discrimination based on race. The former manager was awarded $600,000 in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages. Starbucks claimed that the manager had been fired for being ineffective at her job, but the jury rejected this claim.