EX-PARK GUARDS FILE SUIT AGAINST MAGIC MOUNTAIN.Byline: Orith Goldberg Staff Writer Against a backdrop of previous allegations of racial bias at Six Flags Magic Mountain Six Flags Magic Mountain is an amusement park located just west of the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, north of Los Angeles. It opened on Memorial Day weekend on May 29, 1971 as Magic Mountain, by the Newhall Land and Farming Company,[1] , four of its former security guards have filed a lawsuit claiming they were forced to adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. a policy of refusing to allow ``certain minority customers'' into the theme park. The lawsuit, filed July 20 on behalf of Charles Hernandez, Eugene Tejeda, Habet Craig Simonian and Arman Martirossian, claims they were required to falsify falsify, v to forge; to give a false appearance to anything, as to falsify a record. incident reports at the park and participate in covering up ``illegal conduct'' by managers and supervisors. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the suit, people seeking entrance into the park were stereotyped based on their race, ethnicity, clothing and physical appearance. Park spokeswoman Bonnie Rabjohn said the park has a policy of prohibiting admittance Admittance The ratio of the current to the voltage in an alternating-current circuit. In terms of complex current I and voltage V, the admittance of a circuit is given by Eq. (1), and is related to the impedance of the circuit Z by Eq. (2). in certain cases, citing, as an example, someone wearing a shirt bearing profanity Irreverence towards sacred things; particularly, an irreverent or blasphemous use of the name of God. Vulgar, irreverent, or coarse language. The use of certain profane or obscene language on the radio or television is a federal offense, but in other situations, profanity . Rabjohn declined to detail what else is considered unacceptable. Rabjohn said the assertion that people were prohibited from entering the park based on race, creed or ethnicity is ``absurd.'' Rabjohn also said the former security guards are ``disgruntled dis·grun·tle tr.v. dis·grun·tled, dis·grun·tling, dis·grun·tles To make discontented. [dis- + gruntle, to grumble (from Middle English gruntelen; see employees who filed what we consider to be a frivolous lawsuit.'' The allegations are similar to those made by 11 Latinos who filed a lawsuit against the theme park in 1996, accusing its security staff of searching them and ordering them from the park on separate occasions. That lawsuit was later settled for an undisclosed amount. The theme park also came under fire in 1994 after six youths filed a $1 million discrimination lawsuit. The federal case was settled out of court, and the parties are prohibited from talking about it. That suit accused park security staffers of adhering to a ``gang profile'' when prohibiting youths from entering the park. The six plaintiffs, all of Filipino descent, were questioned, searched for weapons and later denied access to the park with the admonishment that they would face arrest if they returned, according to their complaint. The security guards' lawsuit alleges that theme park staffers bar entrance into the park ``based on unfounded suspicion of certain minority customers' associations with others, which in turn, is primarily based on racial and/or national origin characteristics.'' The lawsuit continues that the theme park's policy of not admitting certain people and stereotyping them based on race or national origin, ``is unlawful and arbitrary and constitutes an attempt to engage in an unlawful boycott or blacklist (1) A list of e-mail addresses of known spammers. See spam, spam filter, Blacklist of Internet Advertisers, greylisting and blackholing. Contrast with white list. (2) A list of Web sites that are considered off limits or dangerous. discrimination by a business establishment.'' |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion