A former employee’s suit claiming racial and gender discrimination against New York-based WeWork has been removed from New York state court, according to an online docket.

Ayesha Whyte, an attorney once recruited to work in WeWork’s legal department, filed suit in the New York Supreme Court on Friday. Shortly after the suit was filed, attorneys for WeWork, Kenneth Turnbull and Dana Brady of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in New York, removed the suit to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. They said in court filings that the state court does not have jurisdiction because Whyte does not live in New York and the amount of damages Whyte is seeking exceeds $75,000.

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