GREENVILLE, N.C. — A federal judge has denied AMC Theaters’ attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed by public theologian and civil rights leader Bishop William Barber II .

Read the official dismissal denial document

The lawsuit alleges that AMC employees called the police to remove Barber from a theater in Greenville, NC.

Lawyers for Barber say he was asked to leave because he refused to provide proof of his disability.

In addition to being a pastor for over 30 years and former chair of the North Carolina NAACP, Bishop Barber is the national founder and president of Repairers of the Breach and the current co-chair of the National Poor People’s campaign. Currently he is the founding director and professor at Yale’s Center for Public Theology and Public Policy and his groundbreaking book W

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