A housekeeper at a hotel in the Poconos who was fired after wearing her hair in cornrows won $25,000 in damages after she brought a racial discrimination case.

U.S. District Judge A. Richard Caputo of the Middle District of Pennsylvania held that Carmelita Vazquez, who is black and Hispanic, proved that her superiors at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide discriminated against her when they fired her in 2007.