Boston bar agrees to settle discrimination suit

Published May 16, 2014 5:02pm ET



BOSTON (AP) — A Boston bar accused of refusing to admit black, Latino or Cape Verdean customers has agreed to pay up to $100,000 to resolve a civil rights enforcement action, the state attorney general’s office announced Friday.

The consent judgment, entered Thursday in Suffolk Superior Court, resolves a lawsuit filed in 2011 against Peggy O’Neil’s Bar & Grille and owner Caron O’Neil, officials said.

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