A former employee at the Mavericks arena has filed a petition seeking documents and the deposition of team owner Mark Cuban, claiming he knew and "swept under the rug" an incident where a noose was left at the American Airlines Center.
Michelle Newsome filed the petition in Dallas County Court on Thursday, seeking information about what Cuban knew regarding the 2011 incident at the American Airlines Center.
Newsome, who is African-American, heard about the noose from another African-American employee who found it before Dallas' Feb. 23, 2011 game. That employee took a photo of it and said Cuban threw the noose in the trash.