East Bay women file $11 million discrimination suit for being kicked off Napa wine train

Contra Costa Times ^ | 10/01/2015 | Chris De Benedetti

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SAN FRANCISCO -- A predominantly black group of women kicked off a Napa wine train "for being too loud" have filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the train company, the group's attorney announced Thursday.

The group of 11 women, who are members of a book club, are seeking $11 million in damages from the Napa Valley Wine Train.

They are being represented by San Francisco civil rights attorney Waukeen Q. McCoy.

Wine train officials have hired a former FBI agent to conduct its own investigation into the incident, a company spokesman said Thursday.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Black Privilege.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Black shakedown, whore attorney.

[fwdude]

I know how loud a group of ghetto black women can get - deafening!

But it can NEVER be about behavior, can it? Their blackness is their license to kill.

[BlueStateRightist]

How could this group of black women prove it was because of their skin color, and not simply because they were too loud? Or, does such a standard mean nothing in California?

[forgotten man]

Things got ugly when the women requested a round of Champipple and were denied service.

[bubbacluck]

Some of the club members on the train were white.

[gaijin]

Home-made radio express..!

SET UP FROM THE START.

[doug from upland]

From wine train to gravy train. The only damages they should ever be able to collect under any circumstances is the cost of the train trek and cost of their trip.

[hal ogen]

Kicked off the train??? Probably, they should be kicked out of the country.

[Iron Munro]

When did “loud, ill behaved drunks” become a race?

[circlecity]

As I recall from the original article on this the women got very drunk and loud and were asked several times to tone it down.

[George from New England]

It would be nice if the winery could get witnesses that were there, into court. But the black on white intimidation factor will stop that dead in its tracks.

[cicero2k]

If the company had an umbrella policy for this, it is not getting renewed.

The trains may stop running.

As much as we blame lawyers, we must blame the juries that the defendants fear that lead to seven figure settlements.

[Lizavetta]

Because obnoxiousness is a civil right.

[smokingfrog]

[Autonomous User]

Thought it was The soulll train!

[yoe]

Waukeen Q. McCoy and his manner-less ladies

[JPG]

You ain'ts gonna be kickin' me offah no wino train, sucka.

[DJ Taylor]

This will prove once and for all that:

Black Laughs Matter

[Michael.SF.]

Wow, never saw this coming.

/s