A Houston jury has delivered a roughly $7 million verdict against the corporate owner of the Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants and other defendants. The plaintiffs won the award after alleging that a supervising employee at one of the chain’s eateries repeatedly sexually assaulted a minor who worked there and a corporate representative aided and abetted the attacks. The jurors also found her employer discriminated against the child worker on the basis of her sex.
The jury’s verdict included $1.1 million in attorney fees but no punitive damages because the jurors, following a two-week trial and three and a half hours of deliberations, could not agree that Chipotle had acted with malice.
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