Apple Can’t Dodge Suit Claiming Sex-Bias for Canceled Contract
- Female owner called pushy by Apple manager, according to suit
- California judge says claims sufficient to allow suit to trial
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Apple Inc. can’t dodge a lawsuit in which it’s accused of canceling a contract with a janitorial service because the owner is a woman.
In a tentative ruling Wednesday in California state court in San Jose, Judge Cynthia Lie ruled that the conduct alleged in the lawsuit -- which includes an Apple manager referring to the service’s female owner as a “typical woman in business” who “thinks she is assertive, but she’s just pushy” -- was enough to allow the case to proceed to trial.