Civil Rights,
Civil Litigation
Nov. 16, 2021
Dispute over $12 basketball can move to trial, US judge rules
“There is a genuine dispute as to whether defendant [Wendy] Magee had any valid, objective reason to deny company policy by leaving the store, chasing after plaintiffs, and confronting them in pursuit of a $12 basketball,” Judge Virginia A. Phillips of the Central District of California wrote.
There is sufficient evidence for a trial on allegations a Nike store manager was racially motivated when she chased after a Black man she suspected of stealing a toy basketball he bought for his son at a Santa Monica shopping center two years ago, a federal judge ruled.
"There is a genuine dispute as to whether defendant [Wendy] Magee had any valid, objective reason to deny company policy by leaving the store, chasing after plaintiffs, an...
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