A retired Detroit public school employee is suing one of Livonia’s bank branches for racial discrimination. The African-American woman claims that white cashiers believed her check was fake because of her race.

On Monday, August 29, Lizzie Pugh, 71, filed a federal lawsuit against Fifth Third Bank, the National Association, Fifth Third Financial Corporation and Old Kent Mortgage Services, Inc. in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan , after employees refused to cash and deposit a five-digit check she received after hitting the jackpot slots at Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, according to the Detroit Free Press.