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Former Queen’s nurse awarded nearly $4M

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STAR-ADVERTISER / AUG. 2011

The Queen’s Medical Center in downtown Honolulu. A jury on Wednesday unanimously awarded a former Queen’s Medical Center nurse nearly $4 million in damages in a whistleblower case in which the African-American woman found an image of a noose taped to her workplace locker and an unsigned racist note left in her hospital mailbox.

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Ellen Harris left her job as a nurse at Queen’s after discovering an image of a noose taped to her locker.