Updated: Thursday, 19 Mar 2009, 10:16 AM EDT
Published : Thursday, 19 Mar 2009, 10:11 AM EDT
Jurors in Norfolk are deliberating the discrimination case of a female dock worker who was punished by her union for urinating on the job when a male co-worker who also relieved himself wasn't.
The U.S. District Court jury began deliberations Wednesday in the case of Sonyo Tillett-Bond, who was told to go home after the Oct. 5, 2006, incident at the Portsmouth port.
The 48-year-old woman is seeking damages totaling $300,000 from the International Longshoremen's Association Local 1458.
Her supervisor sent Tillett-Bond home after he heard of the urination incident because of fears of sexual harassment. While she was eventually reinstated by the union, her male co-worker was not punished.