Citi Rejects Racial Bias Claim From Conservative Legal Firm (1)

Citigroup Inc. urged a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that alleged its decision to waive ATM fees for customers of minority-owned banks amounted to racial discrimination.

“While Citibank’s ATMs require a user to enter his or her personal PIN, they do not ask any user to enter their race,” lawyers for the lender wrote in a motion filed late Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale.

In the suit, filed in May, plaintiffs who don’t bank with Citigroup claimed they were harmed because they paid out-of-network fees for ATM withdrawals while customers of minority-owned financial institutions didn’t. The suit was filed by ...