( January 6, 2026, 1:34 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — A former transit authority employee who was awarded $425,000 by a jury — statutorily reduced to $300,000 — for violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act stemming from his termination for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 moved for reconsideration of an Illinois federal judge’s grant of a new trial, which the judge ordered after determining that he had erred in failing to include a mixed-motive jury instruction on the issue of the transit authority’s motivation for terminating the employee....