PHILLIPS v. STARBUCKS CORPORATION

  1. June 06, 2023

    Starbucks Fired Exec As 'Scapegoat' After Men Arrested, Jury Told

    A former Starbucks regional director was fired after the arrests of two Black men in a Philadelphia outlet sparked widespread outrage — not because she was involved in the incident but because the coffee shop chain needed a "sacrificial lamb," a federal jury heard Tuesday.

  2. September 01, 2022

    Starbucks Can't Escape White Ex-Manager's Race Bias Suit

    Starbucks still faces a white former manager's race bias suit after a federal judge ruled that she offered sufficient evidence for a jury to infer she was fired due to reverse race discrimination after the 2018 arrest of two Black men at a Philadelphia coffee shop.

  3. November 12, 2021

    Starbucks Says Apathy, Not Bias, Got White Worker Fired

    Starbucks urged a New Jersey federal court to toss out a race discrimination case brought by a white former district manager who lost her job after the 2018 arrest of two Black men at a Philadelphia coffee shop, saying her lack of leadership was the reason was she fired.

  4. October 29, 2019

    White Starbucks Worker Links Firing To Philadelphia Arrests

    A former Starbucks regional director has accused the coffee chain of wrongly punishing her and other white employees in her region in the weeks following the high-profile 2018 arrests of two black men in a Philadelphia store "in an effort to convince the community it had properly responded to the incident."