Houston Bar Prevails Over Black Lawyer’s Baseball Cap Bias Suit

A Houston hotel restaurant and bar defeated the bias claim of a Black patron who alleged that workers demanded he take his cap off while intentionally ignoring White customers who wore cowboy hats.

Plaintiff Willie Powells, a lawyer, cited no “direct record evidence” supporting the claim that the staff of the “five-star” Post Oak Hotel and its H Bar restaurant enforced a no-baseball-cap policy against Powells because he was Black, said Judge Lee H. Rosenthal of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas. She granted the hotel’s motion for summary judgment on the race bias claim and ...