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Top Verdicts

Feb. 16, 2017

Top Defense Verdict: Teasley v. Space Explorations Technologies Corp.

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Michael W. Parks, at Schimmel & Parks APLC, said that he lost an $8 million gender discrimination and sexual harassment case against Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. when defense attorney Lynne C. Hermle, partner at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, showed that muscle video of client Zhoei M. Teasley during closing arguments.

"It was a really inflammatory piece of evidence," Parks said of a video in which a buff plaintiff flexes and dances at V...

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