A jury awarded a $2,225,000 verdict against a food storage company in federal court Monday afternoon, after the company was sued for violating the rights of two employees when it requested DNA samples to identify the mysterious individual leaving feces around its Atlanta warehouse. The verdict included $225,000 and $250,000 in compensation for the two plaintiffs, and $1,750,000 in punitive damages.
“It was the verdict we were hoping for,” said Barrett & Farahany’s Amanda Farahany, who represented plaintiffs Jack Lowe and Dennis Reynolds. Her co-counsel was Benjamin Stark.
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