A Pennsylvania judge partially granted SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment’s motion to strike the report and testimony of the opposition’s expert, who assessed the extent to which the named plaintiffs suffered trauma from racial discrimination they allegedly experienced at Sesame Place Philadelphia.

U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania partially granted SeaWorld’s motion to strike in a Feb. 21 opinion, concluding there were issues the expert Dr. Michael L. Lindsey could not opine on at trial, and striking his statement that “’SeaWorld, by their behaviors of shunning and ignoring children of color, are representative examples of’ individual or institutional racism.”