EEOC: Bar fired cancer patient over ?tankini?

Published September 26, 2007 4:00am ET



A federal agency filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a Chesapeake Bay bar that allegedly fired a woman with breast cancer after she refused to wear a “tankini” top.

The EEOC alleges the Red Eye?s Dock Bar, in Grasonville, violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it discriminated against Margaret Finley, who had undergone treatment for breast cancer.

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