m/article/starbucks-racism-philadelphia-manager-lawsuit-bfa9cd9a897dff402f8547f167455d10" data-ylk="slk:$25 million;elm:context_link;itc:0" class="link ">$25 million After alleging that she and other white workers were unjustly punished High-profile arrests Two black men in store 2018.

In June, Shannon Phillips won $600,000 in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages after a New Jersey jury found that race was a determining factor in Phillips’ firing, in violation of federal and state anti-discrimination laws.

Philadelphia Inquirer reports A US district judge on Wednesday ordered Starbucks to pay Phillips another $2.73 million in past and future earnings and benefits plus compensation for tax damages due to the lump sum, according to court documents. The company disputed any payment, saying that Philippe had not demonstrated that she could not earn the same amount or more in the future.

In April 2018, a Philadelphia store manager called police on two black men who were sitting in a coffee shop without ordering anything. Rashawn Nelson and Donte Robinson were later released without charge.

Phillips, then regional director of operations in Philadelphia, southern New Jersey, and elsewhere, was not implicated in the arrests. However, she said she was ordered to place a white manager who was also not on administrative leave for reasons she knew were wrong, according to her lawsuit.

Phillips, 52, said she was fired less than a month after she objected to the manager being put on leave amid the uproar, according to her lawsuit.

The company’s justification for suspending the district manager, who was not responsible for the store where the arrests took place, was to claim that Black store managers were paid less than White managers, according to the lawsuit. Phillips said that argument doesn’t make sense because district managers have no input on employee salaries.

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The lawsuit alleged that Starbucks instead took steps to “punish white employees” who worked in the area “in an effort to convince the community that it had properly responded to the incident.”

Starbucks’ attorneys alleged that Phillips was fired because the company needed stronger leadership in the wake of the arrests.