Federal judge allows Israeli-American Pokémon player’s bias lawsuit to proceed
A federal court has ruled that Dov Aloof, an Israeli-American professional Pokémon player, can proceed with a discrimination lawsuit alleging that the Japanese media company punished his pro-Israel advocacy while allowing another player’s anti-Israel expression.
Hernán Vera, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, denied The Pokémon Company’s motion to dismiss the case on Oct. 8 and allowed all nine counts in Aloof’s lawsuit to proceed.
Aloof “stated a plausible claim of discrimination and retaliation,” the judge ruled.
“Pokémon has a code of conduct that forbids discrimination by race, religion and national origin,” Mark Goldfeder, CEO and director of NJAC, told JNS. “The court has now reminded it that Congress wrote one first.”...
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