Public Hearing Summaries Note: Click on the case title to download the case PDF. Marcellin Brooks vs. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Date of Decision: February 24, 2012 Basis: Race Resolution: Commission Order Download decision file (pdf) Pubic hearing summary: complainant alleged that respondent discriminated against him because of his race, Black, when it refused to allow him to return an item he had purchased or to offer him in-store credit because he did not have a receipt. He further alleged that later the same day respondent allowed his wife, who is not of complainant’s race, to return the item for in-store credit without a receipt. A public hearing was held before the Office of Administrative Hearings on November 8, 2011. On November 29, 2011, an administrative law judge issued a recommended decision finding that respondent’s action was not due to complainant’s race but rather a nondiscriminatory application of respondent’s return policy. On February 24, 2012, the Commission issued a final order adopting the recommended decision and the case was dismissed.