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A Black doctor is suing JPMorgan Chase and two employees at the bank's Sugar Land, Texas, branch for racial discrimination after she says she was refused service to open a bank account.
Dr. Malika Mitchell-Stewart, 34, completed her residency at the end of last year and planned to open a bank account with a $16,780.16 check at the Chase bank in Sugar Land, according to the lawsuit.
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The lawsuit claims that when Mitchell-Stewart presented her check to one of the bank's employees, they began to ask questions challenging the validity of the check as well as Mitchell-Stewart's employment as a doctor. The employee then allegedly told Mitchell-Stewart that they had to verify the check with the bank manager, the second employee named in the case, who is not actually a bank manager but an associate banker and lead teller-operations specialist, according to the lawsuit.
The second employee allegedly told Mitchell-Stewart that the check was fraudulent without providing justification before turning her away. Mitchell-Stewart then left the bank to avoid being arrested and "had an adverse emotional reaction over this humiliation," according to the lawsuit.
"What Dr. Mitchell-Stewart was reminded of on this day was that she is a black woman attempting to deposit $16,000 in a predominantly white affluent suburb - Sugarland, Texas in Ft. Bend County," the lawsuit said. "Solely because of her race, Dr. Mitchell-Stewart was discriminated against by members of Chase’s banking staff and denied services provided to non-African American customers of Chase."
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