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Fired lab employee wins $2.1 million.(NEWSWATCH)(Dee Kotla, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)(Brief Article)

Women in Higher Education

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It seemed like a good idea in December 1996 to testify on behalf of a colleague who was suing over sexual harassment by a supervisor at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, operated by the University of California.

But in February 1997, two months after testifying, computer tech support employee Dee Kotla was fired, after 10 years with the lab. The reason? Allegedly she had made $4.30 in personal phone calls and had files on her office computer that were unrelated to her job.

Kota got the last laugh in March, when a state jury awarded her $2.1 million, to be paid mainly by the University of California.

In 1998 Kotla first sued for retaliation in the Alameda County Superior Court; in 2002 she won a $1 ...

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