Fresno Grizzles faced with discrimination lawsuit over Ladies Night promotion

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) (KFSN) -- The lawsuit, filed successful March, stems from a Ladies Night promotional event, that happened erstwhile the Grizzlies were taking connected the Stockton Ports connected May 25 past year.

The 23-page ailment claims that the Grizzlies violated the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which prohibits favoritism careless of age, race, religion, disability, enactment oregon intersexual orientation.

Legal Analyst Kevin Little said that benignant of promotion tin beryllium a gamble erstwhile it comes to ineligible challenges.

"But if it's a ladies night, and it intelligibly entitles women," said Little. "Just by virtuousness of being women, to get successful astatine a free, either escaped oregon astatine a reduced terms comparative to men. You tally the hazard of these sorts of lawsuits."

The plaintiffs connected the lawsuit are Christine Johnson and Harry Crouch.

The ailment said that Crouch paid $18 dollars to get into the stadium, portion Johnson got into the crippled for free.

They're present seeking $5 cardinal successful damages.

"But if arsenic the ailment indicates, it was an lawsuit that was promoted arsenic providing a differential introduction interest for men versus women, it would presumptively interruption the Unruh," said Little.

The Fresno Grizzlies declined to remark connected the lawsuit.

On apical of being a plaintiff successful the case, Crouch is besides named arsenic the President for the National Coalition for Men's Board of Directors.

Action News reached retired aggregate times to the radical and nary 1 answered our call.

According to the organization's website, it states that it's "committed to ending harmful favoritism and stereotypes against boys, men, their families and the women who emotion them."

Action News tried contacting Alfred Rava, the lawyer representing Johnson and Crouch successful the case, some by email and telephone but again, got nary response.

Little said determination are ways for businesses to support themselves, to debar these types of lawsuits.

"Instead of doing thing wherever it says, women get successful for either reduced terms oregon free," said Little, "you tin accidental thing similar a Mother's Day acquisition handbasket volition beryllium disposable to the archetypal 2000 entrants."

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