Daniel v. Home Box Office, Inc.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND SHANEA DANIEL, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. ELH-23-233 HOME BOX OFFICE, INC., et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION This suit is rooted in the television miniseries We Own This City (the “Series” or the “Show”), which concerns the now defunct Gun Trace Task Force (“GTTF”), a corrupt unit of the Baltimore Police Department (“BPD”). Shanea Daniel, an African American female exotic dancer with dwarfism, filed suit against defendant Home Box Office, Inc. (“HBO”), the distributor of the Show, alleging that a three-minute scene…