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Former NBA Star Sues Atlanta Restaurant for Discrimination

Retired NBA star Joe Barry Carroll is suing an Atlanta bar for racial discrimination, claiming that he and his lawyer, Joseph Shaw, were told to give up their seats because they are black. The two say they were humiliated when a security guard escorted them from the Tavern at Phipps when they refused to give up their seats to a couple of white women, an action they say was part of a broader pattern of discrimination against blacks. The restaurant's lawyers said the men were asked to give up their seats as part of a long-standing "good manners" practice that's been in place at the restaurant for 20 years. Attorney David Long-Daniels said thousands of men have complied with those rules, from stars like Michael Jordan to the other men at the bar the night of the incident, which occurred in August 2006 (the weeklong federal trial began on Sept. 12). "Chivalry is not dead," Long-Daniels said. "And it's not a civil rights violation to give up your seat to a woman." Click here to read more.
 
 



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