Starbucks breaks state law, tosses woman out for breast-feeding

In Louisiana, it is illegal to deny goods or services to a woman who is breast-feeding. A Mandeville, Louisiana woman was in a Starbucks in Metairie, and when she began breast-feeding her baby (after having been told it was okay by an employee), the manager told her she couldn't continue because he thought some of his cusomers would "have a problem" with it.

The woman, Kristina Pearson, told the manager that it was against the law for him to tell her to stop. His masterfully articulate reply was "Well, I don't know about that, but you can't do it here."

He knows about it now. The company has informed him that he violated Louisiana law.