Structural steelmaker Nucor-Yamato announced Friday that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that a plaintiff's attempt at a national class action lawsuit regarding discrimination at the Blytheville, Arkansas plant was determined to be inappropriate.
The Eighth Circuit ruled in Nucor-Yamato's favor and found that a trial court properly denied class action claims brought by six current and former employees of the Blytheville, Arkansas plant.
United States District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright of the Eastern District of Arkansas had previously ruled that there was no evidence of common, plant-wide discrimination, and the appellate court agreed. At the trial, the plaintiffs' law firm sought $23 million for the discrimination claims, but the jury denied the demand and instead awarded each of the six individual plaintiffs $200,000.