Court Rejects Starbucks Bid for Psych Exam of Ejected Customers

Starbucks Corp. lost its bid to mandate that three customers kicked out of a Utah store undergo a psychological exam, after a judge said the coffee giant couldn’t show that their mental conditions “are genuinely in controversy.”

The plaintiffs also must provide supplemental responses to discovery requests seeking their medical records, and information regarding their medical treatment since 2019, said Magistrate Judge Daphne A. Oberg of the US District Court for the District of Utah in two separate Oct. 3 orders.

Oberg wrote that, according to Hossein Kaveh, Faranak Sedarat, and Banou Afsar Sedarat, as a result of Starbucks’ “discrimination ...