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Wed Oct 11, 2017, 03:07 AM Oct 2017

Former Hanford worker awarded $8 million in retaliation case

A Benton County Superior Court jury awarded $8.1 million to former Hanford manager Julie Atwood in a verdict Tuesday afternoon.

Atwood was forced to resign from Department of Energy contractor Mission Support Alliance in 2013.

She filed a civil lawsuit against Mission Support Alliance and one of its vice presidents, Steve Young, who also is the mayor of Kennewick.

The jury found that Mission Support Alliance had retaliated and discriminated against Atwood, and that Young had aided and abetted the retaliation and discrimination.

Read more: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/oct/10/former-hanford-worker-awarded-8-million-in-retalia/

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