Lady Sues Marriott Over ‘No Celebration’ Coverage
A Black girl is suing a lodge in Portland, Oregon, for $300,000 after she says the lodge singled her out due to her race once they requested her to signal a “no celebration coverage.”
Felicia Gonzales, 51, mentioned the entrance desk clerk on the Residence Inn by Marriott Portland Downtown/Conference Heart instructed her all friends needed to signal the coverage, The Oregonian experiences.
In accordance with the lawsuit filed Monday (Dec. 30), Gonzales discovered white friends weren’t required to signal the coverage, The Oregonian experiences.
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“Having to signal a “NO PARTY” Coverage type didn’t really feel proper to Ms. Gonzales, so she went again to the entrance desk,” in keeping with the lawsuit, The Oregonian experiences. “Ms. Gonzales noticed as a number of Caucasian friends checked in. None of them had been requested to signal a “NO PARTY” Coverage.”
In January 2019, Gonzales was visiting household in Portland, her hometown, the place she lived her complete life earlier than transferring to California in October 2018, in keeping with Kafoury & McDougal, the legislation agency representing her, The Oregonian experiences.
In accordance with her attorneys, she checked into the Residence Inn after making a 20-hour drive to Portland, The Oregonian experiences.
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Though Gonzales was a Marriott rewards member and “had by no means had an issue or noise criticism at some other Marriott lodge she had ever stayed at,” she signed the coverage when requested “so she may get into her room” for a five-night keep, in keeping with the lawsuit, The Oregonian experiences.
She is looking for $300,000 for embarrassment, frustration, humiliation and “emotions of racial stigmatization,” in keeping with the lawsuit, which additionally states it may later be amended so as to add $1 million in punitive damages, The Oregonian experiences.
Marriott spokesman Jeff Flaherty instructed The Oregonian that the corporate doesn’t touch upon pending lawsuits.