November 20, 2024 11:15 AM

Price Is Right' Lawsuit: Brandi Cochran's $7.7 Million Victory Overturned By Judge With New Trial Order

It appears that for Brandi Cochran, a former "Price Is Right" model, the price is "not" right.

After winning a $7.7 million lawsuit for discrimination and wrongful termination (due to her being pregnant with twins) against her former employers: producers FremantleMedia North America and The Price Is Right Productions, a judge, claiming the jury was given bad instructions, has ordered the trial to go back to court, confirmed Cochran's attorney, Carney Shegerian, to ABC News.

In Cochran' case, Judge Kevin Brazile failed to issue the "substantial" guidance, despite a request from the defense, stated ABC News.

"The instruction error cannot be considered harmless," Brazile wrote in Tuesday's ruling, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Of central importance to the case was the weight given to discriminatory intent and whether that intent need only be of a mere motivating factor or a substantial factor. Given this central dispute, the failure to give the proper instruction regarding substantial factor cannot be considered harmless, and a new trial must be granted."

The now 41-year-old Cochran, said to ABC News that afters years of trying to conceive, " the show's executive producer was not pleased" upon hearing the news of her pregnancy success.

"He was mad at me and it was hard to comprehend someone upset that I was having twins," she told ABC affiliate KABC-TV last November. "And then I would get questions, 'How long are you going to work?' 'Are you going to work if you get really big?'"

The former model said her co-workers called her a "wide load" and said she would break the set with her added pounds from pregnancy. When Cochran's baby bump started to show, the producers stopped calling her completely.

She stated that after months of maternity leave in 2010, she tried to return to the show but was rejected.

"They ignored me, for probably about four months, trying to get a direct response about working," she told KABC.

However, Shegerian told the Associated Press on Wednesday that that Brazile's ruling was proper and he expects the damages to go even higher in the case.

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