A New Jersey woman has lost a lawsuit alleging she was discriminated against by Tiffany & Co. for breast-feeding her baby in public.
Breast-Feeding Woman Loses Bias Suit
Friday, October 13, 2006
PATERSON (AP) -- A New Jersey woman has lost a lawsuit alleging she was discriminated against by Tiffany & Co. for breast-feeding her baby in public.
A Superior Court jury rendered its decision Thursday in the case of Rosa Almond, a Passaic County woman who was nursing her 4-month-old daughter at the Tiffany store in the Short Hills Mall in December 2002.
She claimed an employee yelled at her and said, "You can't do that. You can't be there."
She said she told the employee she was feeding her baby.
But the employee, Hal Bierman, testified he only asked Almond to move her double stroller out of the way, and could not see that she was breast-feeding. Almond had draped a blanket across herself to be discreet.
Because the panel did not believe the worker saw Almond feeding her child, it did not need to address whether the case involved discrimination.
Her lawyer, Benjamin Zavodnik, told The Record of Bergen County for Friday's newspapers that his client was disappointed with the verdict.
"I'm confident that had the jury gotten to the substantive issues of sexual discrimination, they would have affirmed by client's position," he said.
A lawyer for Tiffany's declined to comment on the verdict outside the courtroom.
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